Adrian Searle on John Berger: 'Art for him was never apart from being alive'

The Guardian art critic remembers his friend as a storyteller and natural performer whose ideas on art were always useful

I cannot overestimate John Berger’s importance to me. It wasn’t so much his critical opinions or insights I valued, so much as the man himself, whose vitality and receptiveness to the things about him had a force I have rarely encountered.

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