But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
BRASSAII think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.
More Brassai Quotes
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I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.
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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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My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.
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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, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.
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I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.
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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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If you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.
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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 about life, and a precise sense of form.
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We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
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