What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
JOHN BERGER
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
More John Berger Quotes
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
JOHN BERGER