270 Quotes by John Berger

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich,’ Peter Ustinov the playwright recently observed with succinct clarity. Although.

Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.

What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

The living reduce the dead to those who have lived; yet the dead already include the living in their own great collective.

The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together.

The autobiographical doesn’t interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.