“ Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf,… John Berger
“ The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest b… John Berger
“ I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are… John Berger
“ 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
“ Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. John Berger
“ The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fit… John Berger
“ Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was w… John Berger
“ Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks. Alternatively one can forget about the quality of the reproduction a… John Berger
“ The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. John Berger
“ The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue. John Berger
“ The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection--the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel. John Berger
“ A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change. John Berger
“ What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. John Berger
“ Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. John Berger
“ A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. John Berger
“ When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the… John Berger
