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
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. – John Berger
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger