The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. — John Berger Copy Share Image
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. — John Berger Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry… — John Berger Copy Share Image
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Its All About Choice - The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter… — John Berger Copy Share
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger Copy Share
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… — John Berger Copy Share
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger Copy Share
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive… — John Berger Copy Share
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.” — John Berger Copy Share
