To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

- Brassai

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

- Brassai

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

- Brassai

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

- Brassai

... 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…

- Brassai

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.

- Brassai

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

- Brassai

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

- Brassai

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

- Brassai