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.
JOHN BERGERThe essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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