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.
JOHN BERGERProtest 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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