To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGERYou cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
More John Berger Quotes
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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