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

Other quotes by John Berger

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Envy / Jealousy
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Art
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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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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Nudity
category

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. – Erma Bombeck

Category:
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

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

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Nudity

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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