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.
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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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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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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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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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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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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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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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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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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
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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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I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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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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… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
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