All John Berger Quotes
- When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,… Available
- The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… All
- 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 Rembrandts… Artist
- I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing… Charcoal
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. Achieve
- Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Apart
- Today the discredit of words is very great. Discredit
- When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total… All
- A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what… Capable
- My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry… Alone
- Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. Funny
- When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… Act
- So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went… Along
- Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw… Cant
- Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever… Appearance
- The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. Image
- Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. Look
- The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… Blind
- What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our… Absence
- The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do… Change