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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.

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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
JOHN BERGER

Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
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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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Art Country Italian Mountain Space Top Traditional
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Capable Contrast Done Men Presence Suggest You
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Address Animal Cave Man Men Mountain Sea Secret Specifically Unlike
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Century Disappearance Enforce Horizon Our People Travel
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word

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