For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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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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