To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGERProtest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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