Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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