If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGER
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
More John Berger Quotes
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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