Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
JOHN BERGERWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
JOHN BERGERYour 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 BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERPoetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
JOHN BERGERThe time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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 BERGERDo you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
JOHN BERGERWhat is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
JOHN BERGERIt can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGERNever again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERCompassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGER