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.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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