Author:  John Berger
Book:    Ways of Seeing
Viewed: 66 - Published at: 9 years ago

The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical.
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.

( John Berger )
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