Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
JOHN BERGERNakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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