A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
