What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms. . . He … - Brassai

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Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

Brassai

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

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

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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.

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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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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

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