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
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger 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 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
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger 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
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — 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 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 between painter… — John Berger 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 because everything… — John Berger 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 behind which… — John Berger 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
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger 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 that... 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 conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — 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 insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
