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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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… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
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Secret Spy Thieves
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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Business End never Shamelessly Wanted
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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Chance Lasts Photographer
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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Explain Photography Suggest
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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Curiosity People Two
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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Safe Haven Voice Wall
I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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Art Important Thinking
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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Conscience Painting Photography
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
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Ambition Daily Firsts Life
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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Differently Everything Produce Started
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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Capturing Photographer Sincere Thin
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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Habit More Nothing Ordinary Seeing
For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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Criteria Photograph Unforgettable
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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Essentials Reality Wish
My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.
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Ordinary Reality Vision
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
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Chance Photographer Photography

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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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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