Brassai Quotes

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• In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it,…
• 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,…
• I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that…
• After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
• The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
• The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets…
• André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a…
• Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still…
• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
• A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
• To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
• The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
• 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 passes…
• I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education...

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