The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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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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