We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERNakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
More John Berger Quotes
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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