All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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