Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
John Berger
Born: November 5, 1926
Died: January 2, 2017 (aged 90)
Bio: John Peter Berger 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 a BBC series, is often used as a university text.
Known for:
- Ways of Seeing (1972)
- A Seventh Man (1975)
- Pig Earth (1979)
- From A to X (2008)
- Bento's Sketchbook (2011)
John Berger Quotes