John Berger Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

  John Berger

  Vanity, Mirrors, Hands

• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

  John Berger

  Envy, Culture, Satisfaction

• The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

  John Berger

  Pain, Philosophical, Space

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.69, Vintage

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