Quote by John Berger
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people

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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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Grief, Grieving
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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Travel
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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Art
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Art
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Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Art

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is arts version of Einsteins Theory of Relativity. Its the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Well, Art is Art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx

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Art

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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Art

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Do what you fear most and you control fear. – Tom Hopkins

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I sure saw a lot of kids that Im sure didnt know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, wed talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So Im sure we made a lot of new fans. – Joan Jett

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Substitute damn every time youre inclined to write very your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – Mark Twain

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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

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