The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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