Occupation: Photographer Birth: July 2, 1894 Death: September 28, 1985
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist..
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life..
Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance..
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.
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….
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye..
I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me..
Photography is my only language..
I do not document anything, I give an interpretation..
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 alpha….
The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless..
You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need..
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time..
Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else..
Two seconds are a thousand years..
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..
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 l….
Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself..
My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself..
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me..