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 BERGER
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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