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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.
John Berger
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John Berger
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: January 2
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. 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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. 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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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