John Berger Quotes

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.