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

Other quotes by John Berger

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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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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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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Art
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – André Gide

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Art

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. – Stella Adler

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Art

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. – Akhenaton

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Art

Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

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Art

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