Quotes by : John Berger

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions....

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because,....

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine....

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

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -....

The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who....

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant....

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and....

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others,....

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of....