Shoot what you see, not what you think.

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and ev…

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or pres…

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides…

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, …

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes.…

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photogra…

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo