“I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order… — John Berger Compassion Copy Share Image
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a… — John Berger Characters Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all… — John Berger Copy Share Image
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision… — John Berger Bears Copy Share Image
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“english autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world. The air is cold. The floorboards are cold. It is… — John Berger Autumn Copy Share Image
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know… — John Berger Earth Copy Share Image
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a… — John Berger Creativity Copy Share Image
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained… — John Berger Accidents Copy Share Image
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and… — John Berger Envy Copy Share Image
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable… — John Berger Bombs Copy Share Image
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself… — John Berger Buyers Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Action Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Accidents Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger Book Copy Share Image
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges,… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
“Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power… — John Berger Life Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London… — John Berger Age Copy Share Image
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field,… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Publicity has another social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those make and use… — John Berger Publicity Copy Share Image
“(Here and in the European tradition generally, the convention of not painting the hair on a woman's body helps towards the same… — John Berger Hair Copy Share Image
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for… — John Berger Body Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Accuracy Copy Share Image
