I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges,… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field,… — John Berger Artist 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
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — 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 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
“english autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world. The air is cold. The floorboards are cold. It is… — John Berger Autumn Copy Share Image
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and… — John Berger Envy Copy Share Image
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know… — John Berger Earth Copy Share Image
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the… — 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained… — John Berger Accidents Copy Share Image
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
