John Berger Quotes
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
John Berger
Quotes to Explore
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary Busey
When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.
Elizabeth Wilson
You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.
Charlie Hunnam
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Ted Cruz
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
Lynsey Addario
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
Christopher Love
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
John Berger
