Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the… — John Berger Advertising Copy Share Image
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. — John Berger Events Copy Share Image
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. — John Berger Absence Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Animal Copy Share Image
“Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people… — John Berger Acting Copy Share Image
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices… — John Berger Anger Copy Share Image
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Actor Copy Share Image
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the… — John Berger Artist 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
“When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at… — John Berger Angel Copy Share Image
“When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments… — John Berger Artist 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
“We are accused of being obsessed by property. The truth is the other way round. It is the society and culture in… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Abstract Copy Share Image
“THE WORLD HAS changed. Information is being communicated differently. Misinformation is developing its techniques. On a world scale emigration has become the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Failure Copy Share Image
A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . .… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What… — John Berger Consequence Copy Share Image
“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless… — John Berger Fearless Copy Share Image
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.” — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to… — John Berger Publicity Copy Share Image
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger Blindness Copy Share Image
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger Fear 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
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that… — John Berger Absence Copy Share Image
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is… — John Berger Communication Copy Share Image
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for… — John Berger Beauty Copy Share Image
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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