39 Quotations by John Berger
- 21. One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely bec ...
- 22. Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing ot ...
- 23. Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing ot ...
- 24. Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off ...
- 25. Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the sam ...
- 26. Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for i ...
- 27. That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply in ...
- 28. The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet n ...
- 29. The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet n ...
- 30. The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel ...
- 31. The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialis ...
- 32. The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of ...
- 33. The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
- 34. The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result ...
- 35. Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...
- 36. Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of ...
- 37. What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is ...
- 38. When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is ...
- 39. When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first lea ...
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