The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGERWhat 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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