Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. - John Berger 1 Share Now -
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. - John Berger 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities. - John Berger 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Protest 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 Berger 6 Share Now -
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. - John Berger 10 Share Now -
