John Berger

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February 11, 2021

Name: John Berger
Born: 11/05/1926
Died: 01/02/2017 (90 years old)
Occupation: novelist, critic, painter, poet

John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.

Birth Name: John Peter Berger

Awards: James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Booker Prize (1972)

School: Chelsea School of Art, Central School of Art and Design

Genre: Writer

Birth Place: Stoke Newington, London, England

Death Place: Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Source: Wikipedia

John Berger quotes :

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger

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

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