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Quote by John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Art
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day. – Author Unknown

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One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. – Author Unknown

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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. – Berenice Abbott

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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. – Harold Evans, “Pictures on a Page”

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God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? – Whitney Houston

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Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. – Rita Rudner

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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

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