All John Berger Quotes
- Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts… Acts
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes… Achieve
- One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… Abstract
- The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in… Aura
- The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. Bureaucrats
- Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same… Actors
- In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be… Anywhere
- Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. Believe
- I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to… Art
- Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager,… Age
- To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked… Body
- Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.… Any
- Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear… Appear
- Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became… Appearance
- To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant. Ignorant
- The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the… Buyer
- Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. Child
- Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else.… Accidents
- Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing… Allowance
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...… Acquire