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.
JOHN BERGERTo 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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