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.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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