Andre Kertesz Quotes

#1. I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

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#2. I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

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#3. I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

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#4. Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

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#5. The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

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#6. Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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#7. You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

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#8. Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

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#9. I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

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#10. My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

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#11. Two seconds are a thousand years.

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#12. I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

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#13. Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself ...

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#14. Photography is my only language.

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#15. I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

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#16. The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

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#17. The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

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#18. People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else.

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#19. Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

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#20. I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

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#21. I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

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#22. The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

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