To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGERThe happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
More John Berger Quotes
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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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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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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