To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGERFor the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
More John Berger Quotes
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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