We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
JOHN BERGERDeep 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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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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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.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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