Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGERThe camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
More John Berger Quotes
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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