To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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