All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. — John Berger Bridal shower Copy Share Image
“Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.” — John Berger Eternity Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. — John Berger Ethics Copy Share Image
“Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to… — John Berger Life Copy Share Image
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger Bureaucrats Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.” — John Berger Death Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power… — 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… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leavesthe… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they… — John Berger Actors Copy Share Image
“The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on… — John Berger Language Copy Share Image
“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them… — 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
“Consider the term Mother Tongue. In Russian the term is Rodnoi-yazyk, which means Nearest or Dearest Tongue. At a pinch one could… — John Berger Language Copy Share Image
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones… — 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 Failure Copy Share Image
The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. — John Berger Death Copy Share Image
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. — John Berger Child Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Inspirational Copy Share Image
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger Innovation Copy Share Image
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