Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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)
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