Brassai Professions : Photographer Born : September 9, 1899 Died : July 8, 1984 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Brassai I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education. Brassai important art thinking 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. Brassai inspiration imagination reality 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. Brassai lasts chance photographer After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do. Brassai cameras twenties years Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors