Brassai

Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude…

— Brassai

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was…

— Brassai

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.…

— Brassai

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges…

— Brassai

Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than…

— Brassai

“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living…

— Brassaï

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

— Brassai

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

— Brassai

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have…

— Brassaï

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

— Brassai

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he,…

— Brassai

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But…

— Brassai

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education...

— Brassai

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it…

— Brassai

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me.…

— Brassai

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

— Brassai

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

— Brassai

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about…

— Brassai

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

— Brassai

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which…

— Brassai

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not…

— Brassai

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

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

— Brassai

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

— Brassai