There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters..

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do..

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

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 pas….

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, mee….

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 ….

Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and ….

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

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, a….

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and….

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 equi….

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time..

... 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 w….

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..

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do..

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own..

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education..

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain..

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur..

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable..

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence.