Chance Quote by Brassai

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

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

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

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

“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

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 to eliminate…

— 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, the photographer,…

— 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…

— Brassai

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

— Brassai