Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the… — John Berger Capitalism Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Alive Copy Share Image
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident… — John Berger Accidents Copy Share Image
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Argument Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of… — John Berger Silence Copy Share Image
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into… — John Berger Beautiful Copy Share Image
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream.” — John Berger Dream Copy Share Image
“You can put your principles into a match-box but what fills the whole room is your instinctive responses.” — John Berger Copy Share Image
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
“I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.” — John Berger Career Copy Share Image
“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo… — John Berger Facts Copy Share Image
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself… — John Berger Cruelty Copy Share Image
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger Animal Copy Share Image
“Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident” — John Berger Copy Share Image
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger Character Copy Share Image
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Labour Copy Share Image
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
“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 Solitude Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Sorrel soup: "You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp… — John Berger Food Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is… — John Berger Breathing Copy Share Image
“If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can’t help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during!… — John Berger Love Copy Share Image
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