My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time. Brassai More Quotes by Brassai More Quotes From Brassai Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. Brassai powerful photography memories My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary. Brassai vision ordinary reality The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. Brassai purpose people art To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. Brassai photography ... 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. Brassai spy thieves secret For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable. Brassai unforgettable criteria photograph A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. Brassai chance photography photographer The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence Brassai safe-haven wall voice 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? Brassai beauty men art To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur. Brassai outlook forget-you eye 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. Brassai vision eerie real 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. Brassai eye photography responsibility 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. Brassai everyday reality thinking 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. Brassai essentials wish reality André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form. Brassai curiosity two people 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. Brassai vocation insight photographer 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. Brassai photography may beautiful There are many photographs which are full of life but Brassai confusing matter remember Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. Brassai painting conscience photography I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education. Brassai important art thinking
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