Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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