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
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
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place.… — John Berger Being 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
“There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Awareness Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger Boycott Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Anguish Copy Share Image
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Publicity has another social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those make and use… — John Berger Publicity Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — 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 Body Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Accuracy Copy Share Image
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“(Here and in the European tradition generally, the convention of not painting the hair on a woman's body helps towards the same… — John Berger Hair Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money is to overcome anxiety. Alternatively the anxiety on… — John Berger Anxiety Copy Share Image
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Auras Copy Share Image
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself… — John Berger Buyers Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Action 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 Accidents Copy Share Image
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable… — John Berger Bombs Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger Book Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London… — John Berger Age Copy Share Image
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
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