John Berger

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

— John Berger

#dwelling #home #hostile #human #language

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. ↗

— John Berger

#close #disappear #enforced #helplessly #horizon

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. ↗

— John Berger

#critical #cut #cutting #daily #futures

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

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

— John Berger

#dying #gradually #grows #like #past

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

— John Berger

#chain #dogs #must #never #sausages

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

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ↗

— John Berger

#beautiful #believe #course #crystal #deeply

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. ↗

— John Berger

#condemned #display #dress #form #itself