Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
John BergerWhat any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
John Berger'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
John BergerOne can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John BergerThe 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 BergerAll nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.
John Berger