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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

John Berger

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Bases Extreme Finishing Giacometti History Impossible Incomplete Portrayed Proposition Reality Share Staring
It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Burden Camera Memories Photography Recieve
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Consequences Exactly Past Prisoner Wish
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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According Event Events Plan Plans
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Natural Photo Photograph
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Constellation First Invented Named Night Sky Star Storyteller
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Everything Four Happen Make Place Possible Story Take Wall

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

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