John Berger Quotes

John Berger — English Artist born on November 05, 1926,

John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text... (wikipedia)

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

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 parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.