To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERCompare 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.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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