Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
JOHN BERGER(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
More John Berger Quotes
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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