To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGERPainting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
More John Berger Quotes
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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