We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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