Quotes About Brassai

#1. When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

Henry Miller

#2. Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Don Meyer

#3. My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

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#5. The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

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#6. You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

Jon Clinch

#7. If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

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#9. Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?

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#10. After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

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#11. Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

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#12. I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

Beyonce Knowles

#13. Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Cory Booker

#14. You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Dennis Hopper

#15. I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education ...

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#16. When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Hans Ree

#17. Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

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#18. There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.

Wallace Stevens

#19. Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

William Monahan

#20. The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

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#21. There are many photographs which are full of life but
which are confusing and difficult to remember.
It is the force of an image which matters.

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#22. What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms ... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

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#23. 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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#24. I had been a fan of the show [Flash] for many years, had auditioned several times, and knew it was coming towards the end of its run. I was just crossing my fingers and hoping that something worked out. It was such a dream come true.

Danielle Panabaker

#25. It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

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#26. Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

Steve Goodier

#27. So it is in life ... In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Maybe they'll row their way to the real truth ...

Anton Chekhov

#28. Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.

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#29. To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

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#30. My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

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#31. 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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#32. I don't invent anything. I imagine everything ... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. 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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#33. If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. 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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#34. A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

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#35. We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. 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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#36. 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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#37. For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

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