We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. John Berger Read Quote
Fahrenheit 9/11′ is astounding. Not so much as a film – although it is cunning and moving – but as an event. John Berger Read Quote
The autobiographical doesn’t interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. John Berger Read Quote
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something. John Berger Read Quote
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument. John Berger Read Quote
In Degas’s compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual. John Berger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. John Berger Read Quote
