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 BERGERIt can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
More John Berger Quotes
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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