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 human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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