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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but theres not a lens long enough for that. – Andy Garcia

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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste. – Peter McWilliams

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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