Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
JOHN BERGERNothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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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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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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