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.
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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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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