John Berger

British · 1926–2017

British art critic, novelist, and painter whose "Ways of Seeing" transformed how we understand visual culture.

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“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”

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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her. You put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”

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