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Itself Quotes by John Berger
- Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
- Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
- A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to…
- A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you…
- 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.
- Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should…
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