"[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . ."

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John Berger

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“Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.”
“You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.”
“It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.
“I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.”
“I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.”
“Photography is a generous mediumâ€¦”
“....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

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