John Berger

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

— John Berger

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and…

— John Berger

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for…

— John Berger

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way,…

— John Berger

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

— John Berger

Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity…

— John Berger

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to…

— John Berger

“(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

“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a…

— John Berger

“Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.”

— John Berger

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of…

— John Berger

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across…

— John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

— John Berger

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

— John Berger

“Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power…

— John Berger

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

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the…

— John Berger

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is…

— John Berger

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion…

— John Berger

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

“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

The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where…

— John Berger

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.

— John Berger

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the…

— John Berger