But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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