The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger 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
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
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate… — John Berger 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger 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 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
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 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 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
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — 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
