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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 relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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