Famous Quotes / John Berger
39 Quotations by John Berger
- 1. A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course ...
- 2. A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so ...
- 3. All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original hum ...
- 4. All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are th ...
- 5. At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate d ...
- 6. Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
- 7. Common sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learni ...
- 8. Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and e ...
- 9. Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...
- 10. Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Od ...
- 11. Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
- 12. I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, ...
- 13. I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood" and my first ...
- 14. In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, ...
- 15. Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
- 16. Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
- 17. Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time ha ...
- 18. Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. N ...
- 19. Nothing in the nature around us is evil.
- 20. One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that can ...