270 Quotes by John Berger

It is a mistake to think of publicity supplanting the visual art of post-Renaissance Europe; it is the last moribund form of that art.

To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.

When I open my walletto show my paperspay moneyor check the time of a trainI look at your face.The flower's pollenis older than the mountainsAravis is youngas mountains go.The flower's ovuleswill be seeding stillwhen Aravis then agedis no more than a hill.The flower in the heart'swallet, the forceof what lives usoutliving the mountain.And our faces, my heart, brief asphotos.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The happiness of being envied is glamour.

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.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?