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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.

John Berger

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Book Grow Pass Unlike Year Younger
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
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Alone Autobiography Begin Form Orphan Sense
The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Female Herself Object Sight Surveyed Turn Vision Woman
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
A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Apart Authentic Bring Contribute Labor Life Loss Poem Poetry Space Together Violence
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Burden Camera Memories Photography Recieve
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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Adjustment Against Derive Hope Injustice Justice Little Protest Shouting
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Earth Field Gesture Imagination Paint Ploughed Reality Road Roadmaker Turn Warth
It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Door Furniture Galleries Go House Shutting Street Way
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Around Die Dying Gradually Grow One Past Placenta
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self

What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.

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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.

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