The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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