My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and… — Brassai Copy Share Image
My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express… — Brassai Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have… — Brassai Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication… — Brassai Copy Share Image
“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and… — Brassaï Copy Share Image
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur. — Brassai Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have to eliminate… — Brassaï Copy Share Image
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. — Brassai Copy Share Image
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer,… — Brassai Copy Share Image
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything… — Brassai Copy Share Image
