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John Berger Quotes

English - Artist | November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

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

Together Self Never Dogs Bored Must

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 walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Walls Book Voice Story Place Will

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Home Man Language Place Say Human

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Travel People Horizon Seeing Others

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Past Dying Like Gradually Around

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Envy Personal Emotion Glamour Social

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Daily Past Opinion Present Media

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

People World Looking More Write See

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

Art People Me Alive Important Lived

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.

Myself Think Confident Someone Know

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Day Painting You Every Day Lose

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Money Writing Thought You Say Where

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