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Quote by John Berger
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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Animals
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John Berger
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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alone
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John Berger
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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Photography
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Other Quotes from
Nudity
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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. – Robert Bresson

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Nudity

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. – Captain J. G. Stedman

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Nudity

There once was a sculptor called Phidias
Who had a distaste for the hideous.
So he sculpt Aphrodite
Without any nightie
Which shocked the ultra-fastidious. – Anon.

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Nudity

Nudity is the uniform of the other side… nudity is a shroud. – Milan Kundera

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Nudity

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