In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money is to overcome anxiety. Alternatively the anxiety on… — John Berger Anxiety Copy Share Image
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Ambiguity Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Auras Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Awareness Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there… — John Berger Artist Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Art Copy Share Image
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger Boycott Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Anguish Copy Share Image
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the… — John Berger Copy Share Image