Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGER