The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist. — 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
