If you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.
BRASSAIWe 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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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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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
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… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
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The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
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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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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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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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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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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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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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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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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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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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