Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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