"If you take your inspiration from nature, you……" — Brassai
"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 throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with."
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14 Quotes by Brassai
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In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to…
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My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only…
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I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life…
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After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
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The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on…
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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment…
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André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and…
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Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots,…
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Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
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A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned…
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