Andre Kertesz Professions : Photographer Born : July 2, 1894 Died : September 28, 1985 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Andre Kertesz The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. Andre Kertesz cameras photography giving 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 beginners forever world The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. Andre Kertesz photographer discovery art Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph Andre Kertesz photography photographer enough You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need. Andre Kertesz giving reality needs 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 important photographer looks People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else. Andre Kertesz movement mean people I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me. Andre Kertesz can-do-something stills interesting For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography. Andre Kertesz careers photography memories I do not document anything, I give an interpretation. Andre Kertesz interpretation photographer giving 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 Andre Kertesz important light blood If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression. Andre Kertesz photography writing beautiful Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance. Andre Kertesz invention transformation chance 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 photographer done ordinary Photography is my only language. Andre Kertesz language photography photographer The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless. Andre Kertesz photographer men memories Two seconds are a thousand years. Andre Kertesz thousand two years I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. Andre Kertesz photographer way 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 angle elements eye 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 moments photography photographer Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
