Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, … - Brassai

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Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

Brassai

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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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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