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

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – 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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger

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Experience
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at ones own value. – George Jean Nathan

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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. – Harvey Fierstein

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

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