"Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. 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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Source : John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage

John Berger

#Photography Quotes #Decision Quotes #Choices Quotes

“...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers”
“Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.”
“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”
“First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.”

Source : "The Power of the First Impression". www.wsj.com. May 09, 2009.
“One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.”
“When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noirÂ I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.”
“Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because itâ€™s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where Iâ€™m most confident and where Iâ€™m at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And Iâ€™m still searching for more ways.”
“You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel”

Source : Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.671, Simon and Schuster

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