Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGER
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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