The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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