The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger Animal 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
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger Artist 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 Labour 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
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
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
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of… — 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
“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a… — John Berger Vanity Copy Share Image
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein… — John Berger Animal Copy Share Image
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved… — John Berger Capitalism 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
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
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is… — John Berger Communication Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Absence Copy Share Image
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for… — John Berger Beauty Copy Share Image
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.” — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to… — John Berger Publicity Copy Share Image
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger Blindness Copy Share Image
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless… — John Berger Fearless Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger Fear Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Alive 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. — John Berger Copy Share Image
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept… — John Berger Copy Share Image
So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices… — John Berger Anger Copy Share Image
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