The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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.
JOHN BERGER