Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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