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.
BRASSAIIn 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.
BRASSAIFor me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
BRASSAIMy ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
BRASSAIPhotography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
BRASSAIThe 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.
BRASSAIIf you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.
BRASSAITo me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
BRASSAII think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
BRASSAI… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
BRASSAIThe wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
BRASSAIMy images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.
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.
BRASSAIMy 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.
BRASSAIBut still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
BRASSAIA poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
BRASSAIWhat attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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