John Berger Quotes

• We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

  John Berger

  Looks, Relation, Just One

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• We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

  John Berger

  Opciones, Looks

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• La relación entre lo que vemos y lo que sabemos nunca está resuelta. Cada atardecer vemos ponerse el sol. Sabemos que la Tierra se aleja de él. Sin embargo, el conocimiento, la explicación, nunca encajan del todo con la visión.

  John Berger

  Sight, Evening, Earth

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• All creation is in the art of seeing.

  John Berger

  Art, Creation, Seeing

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• Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

  John Berger

  Love, Men, Watches

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• Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

  John Berger

  Real, Painting, Absence

  1988 In New Statesman and Society,15 Jul.

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• Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

  John Berger

  Photography, Choices, Decision

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage

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• I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

  John Berger

  Art, Revenge, Past

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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• Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

  John Berger

  Children, Looks, Speak

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger; Penguin Books, 1972.

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• 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 imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

  John Berger

  Priorities, Scarcity, World

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage

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• To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

  John Berger

  Feelings, This Life, Immortal

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• La cámara nos libera del peso de la memoria.

  John Berger

  Photography, Memories, Cameras

  1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.

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• You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

  John Berger

  Vanity, Mirrors, Hands

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• Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

  John Berger

  Hands, Stories

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• La desnudez se revela. La desnudez se exhibe. El desnudo está condenado a no estar nunca desnudo. La desnudez es una forma de vestir.

  John Berger

  Beauty, Dresses, Naked

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• Lo que hace de la fotografía un invento extraño es que sus materias primas principales son la luz y el tiempo.

  John Berger

  Inspirational, Photography, Light

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

  John Berger

  Soul, Alive, Legends

  John Berger (2012). “G. John Berger”, p.197, A&C Black

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• 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.

  John Berger

  Art, People, Theatre

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• All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

  John Berger

  Photography, Pain, Opposites

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• All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

  John Berger

  Marriage, Wedding, Different

  1985 The White Bird,'The Storyteller'.

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• Quienes primero inventaron las constelaciones y luego les dieron nombre eran narradores de historias. Trazar una línea imaginaria entre un grupo de estrellas les daba una imagen y una identidad. Las estrellas enhebradas en esa línea eran como acontecimientos enhebrados en una narración. Por supuesto, imaginar las constelaciones no cambiaba las estrellas ni el vacío negro que las rodeaba. Lo que cambió fue la forma de leer el cielo nocturno.

  John Berger

  Estrellas, Noche, Cielo

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Que un cristal o una amapola nos parezcan bellos significa que estamos menos solos, que estamos más profundamente insertos en la existencia de lo que el transcurso de una sola vida nos haría creer.

  John Berger

  Hermoso, Naturaleza, Creer

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage

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• A veces el fracaso es muy necesario para el artista. Le recuerda que el fracaso no es el desastre definitivo. Y este recordatorio le libera del mezquino afán de perfeccionismo.

  John Berger

  Mean, Artist, Perfection

  John Berger (2011). “A Painter of Our Time”, p.168, Vintage

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• The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

  John Berger

  Past, Wish, Prisoner

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• Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

  John Berger

  Photography, Flirting, Flow

  1983 In the New Statesman, 22/29 Dec.

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