We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERWe who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
JOHN BERGERYet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
JOHN BERGERNothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
JOHN BERGERMy heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
JOHN BERGERAdvertising 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 BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERShe is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
JOHN BERGERProtest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERNever again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERThe publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGERHistory always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGEREvery authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
JOHN BERGER