The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. …

- John Berger

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

- John Berger

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

- John Berger

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

- John Berger

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

- John Berger

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 w…

- John Berger

All creation is in the art of seeing.

- John Berger

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

- John Berger

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one pla…

- John Berger