Occupation: Photographer Birth: August 22, 1908 Death: August 3, 2004
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express an….
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing..
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography..
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it..
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing..
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight..
And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it..
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown..
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart..
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time..
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment..
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us..
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul..
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression..
The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi ….
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and….
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera..
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t t….
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment..
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way….
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute.