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JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
More John Berger Quotes
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
JOHN BERGER