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Quote by John Berger
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw

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

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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Advertising
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Nudity
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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Art

Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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Art

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. Thats how I get my kicks. – Edward Koch

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Art

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

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Art

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Government workers often get a bad rap, but its rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works. – Matthew Lesko

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Government

There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Weather

I hate flowers — I paint them because theyre cheaper than models and they dont move. – Georgia OKeeffe

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Flowers