"Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit."

-- Leonard Freed

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“I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.”
“I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. Thereâ€™s probably a third categoryâ€”the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but Iâ€™ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they donâ€™t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.”
“When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.”
“I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.”
“When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.”
“I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.”
“It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.”
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”

Source : John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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