Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGER
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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