What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
More John Berger Quotes
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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