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.
BRASSAIPhotography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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… we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs.
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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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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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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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A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
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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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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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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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I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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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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My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.
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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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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms…
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