“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
John Berger
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“I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten…. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honour.”
John Berger
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“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?”
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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“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”
John Berger
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“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
John Berger
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“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
John Berger
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