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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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alone
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John Berger
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Dreams
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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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Photography
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Art

An artist is somebody who produces things that people dont need to have. – Andy Warhol

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Art

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. – Catherine Deneuve

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Art

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Art

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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

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One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time. – Andrew Cohen

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