The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
JOHN BERGERA man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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