The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
John BergerYou painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting โVanity,โ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
John BergerA 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 not by a but.
John Berger