Quotes About Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

#2. 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.

Andre Kertesz

#3. We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Frank Quattrone

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

Andre Kertesz

#5. A person truly confident in their belief is never threatened by another not sharing the same belief.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. 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.

Andre Kertesz

#7. 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.

Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

#9. By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new person to grow inside you.

Paulo Coelho

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

Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

#13. The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

Donald Barthelme

#14. No matter how you imagine something to be, it's not what you imagine it to be. Any thought you have isn't real or a big deal.

Art Hochberg

#15. Photography is my only language.

Andre Kertesz

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

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#17. 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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#18. Two seconds are a thousand years.

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

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#20. 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.

Andre Kertesz

#21. I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Joyce Meyer

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

Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

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

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

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#26. 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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#27. I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

Famke Janssen

#28. Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

Sandra Bernhard

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

Andre Kertesz

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

Andre Kertesz

#31. Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

William Ralph Inge

#32. All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow

L. Frank Baum