Achieve Quote by John Berger

“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.”

John Berger

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Achieve Art Art is Cinema Continuity Mankind Nature of man Saved Spontaneous Vagrants

More by John Berger

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

John Berger

Image

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

John Berger

Image

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything…

John Berger

Image

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

John Berger

Image

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

Image

My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the…

John Berger

Image

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the…

John Berger

Image

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature…

John Berger

Image

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

John Berger

Image

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled…

John Berger

Image

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

John Berger

Image

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.…

John Berger

Image

Explore all 214 John Berger quotes

More Achieve quotes

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and…

Brian Tracy

Image

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

Bruce Springsteen

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so…

Maria Sharapova

Image

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

Daniel H. Pink

Image

Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

Hal Elrod

Image

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to…

Tom Segev

I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve the look that I wanted for this film. I wanted it to be dirty, and 16mm provides all of that with the look and the grain. That's what I worked for, and that's what I wanted,…

Deon Taylor