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Pintor, escritor e crítico de arte britânico (1926-2017)
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“The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.”
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless.”
“Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. In their superficial anatomy — less in their deep anatomy — in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both like and unlike.”
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements in that sentence are connected by an and and not by a but.”
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John Peter Berger foi um crítico de arte, romancista, pintor e poeta inglês. Seu romance G. venceu o Prêmio Booker de 1972. Seu ensaio sobre crítica de arte Ways of Seeing, escrito como acompanhamento da série da BBC de mesmo nome, é enormemente influente culturalmente e continua a ser amplamente lido hoje. Ele viveu na França por mais de cinquenta anos.
