Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography. — John Berger Age Copy Share Image
Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. — John Berger Elite Copy Share Image
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger Book Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Autobiography Copy Share Image
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story. — John Berger Contraband Copy Share Image
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. — John Berger Death Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger Innovation Copy Share Image
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the… — John Berger Advertising Copy Share Image
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. — John Berger Events Copy Share Image
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Actor Copy Share Image
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Argument Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can… — John Berger Art 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
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can’t help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during!… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
“The boon of language is not tenderness. All that it holds, it holds with exactitude and without pity, even a term of… — John Berger Language Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Authority 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 Death Copy Share Image
Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and… — John Berger Dung 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
“Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks.… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges,… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Failure Copy Share Image
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. — John Berger Child Copy Share Image
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. — John Berger Absence Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.” — John Berger Death Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
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