John Berger Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Berger
John Berger Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![John Berger quotes: The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. * John Berger quotes: The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1192329.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. John Berger quotes: What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-871227.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences. John Berger quotes: The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-199067.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. John Berger quotes: For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1046317.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal John Berger quotes: Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-895969.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way. John Berger quotes: Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1149289.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. John Berger quotes: The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1404245.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. John Berger quotes: Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-203056.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejectionthe more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel. John Berger quotes: The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejectionthe more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-323673.jpg)
the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.
![John Berger quotes: A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. John Berger quotes: A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1238474.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing. John Berger quotes: Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-436086.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident John Berger quotes: Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-49502.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past John Berger quotes: History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-455000.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The living reduce the dead to those who have lived; yet the dead already include the living in their own great collective. John Berger quotes: The living reduce the dead to those who have lived; yet the dead already include the living in their own great collective.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1625701.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. John Berger quotes: The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1318087.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. John Berger quotes: The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1703162.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. John Berger quotes: The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1631926.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. John Berger quotes: There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-29749.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. John Berger quotes: Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1416529.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. John Berger quotes: Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1405222.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. John Berger quotes: If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-108597.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination. John Berger quotes: We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-25051.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: To be naked is to be oneself.To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself. John Berger quotes: To be naked is to be oneself.To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1998417.jpg)
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
![John Berger quotes: The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born John Berger quotes: The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-2042288.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment. John Berger quotes: Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-2051957.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict. John Berger quotes: Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-16012.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. John Berger quotes: Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-2138539.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home. John Berger quotes: Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-2144532.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. John Berger quotes: We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-2149387.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. John Berger quotes: Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-324712.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. John Berger quotes: We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-588873.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. John Berger quotes: Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-613170.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination. John Berger quotes: The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-489701.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream. John Berger quotes: Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-819362.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. John Berger quotes: The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-418128.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. John Berger quotes: Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-969287.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. John Berger quotes: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1049492.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. John Berger quotes: Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-1121949.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority. John Berger quotes: I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-210733.jpg)
![John Berger quotes: The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. John Berger quotes: The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-berger-quotes-154321.jpg)