Today the discredit of words is very great.
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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