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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 65 quotes by John Berger John Berger John Berger, Strasbourg, 2009 Born John Peter Berger (1926-11-05) 5 November 1926 (age 88) London Borough of Hackney, UK Occupation Novelist Language English Nationality British Education St Edward's School, Oxford Alma mater Chelsea School of Art; Central School of Art Genre Writer Notable awards James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Booker Prize John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist,... Read full biography of John Berger → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult... → 0 Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco... → 0 What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. 0 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... → 0 Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. 0 A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand... → 0 Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's... → 0 When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four... → 0 Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No... → 0 The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities... → 0 Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. 0 Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. 0 Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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