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.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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