In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. — 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 Book Copy Share Image
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and… — John Berger Choices Copy Share Image
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. — John Berger Autobiographical Copy Share Image
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. — 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
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order… — John Berger Compassion Copy Share Image
“They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of… — John Berger Silence 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Sorrel soup: "You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp… — John Berger Food Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is… — John Berger Breathing Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leavesthe… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“THE WORLD HAS changed. Information is being communicated differently. Misinformation is developing its techniques. On a world scale emigration has become the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger Capitalism Copy Share Image
“When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at… — John Berger Angel Copy Share Image
The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“We are accused of being obsessed by property. The truth is the other way round. It is the society and culture in… — John Berger Art 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. — 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 Life Copy Share Image
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger Burden 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
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger Bureaucrats Copy Share Image
“At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
“I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.” — John Berger Career Copy Share Image
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself… — John Berger Cruelty Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo… — John Berger Facts Copy Share Image
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger Animal Copy Share Image
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger Character Copy Share Image
“Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident” — John Berger Copy Share Image
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a… — John Berger Solitude Copy Share Image
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