270 Quotes by John Berger

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose.