To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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