“I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.” Quote by Andres Serrano
“I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.” ThinkingWould BeLife IsDiesNormalCuriousCertaintyUnnaturalMacabreCertainty In Life Author:Andres Serrano
“... 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 were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.” EndsWantedFoundSecretPhotographerGoodsBetrayQuantityThievesPacksStolenSpyCrooks Author:Brassai
“It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.” FeltPhotographerInsightVocationObserversSociologists Author: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.” TryingMadeRealRealityVisionSurrealismEerieSurrealist Author:Brassai
“Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.” PaintingPhotographyConscience Author:Brassai
“What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.” LastsFormChanceMaterialsSurprisePhotographerPursueRefugePenetrate Author:Brassai
“My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.” IfsFirstsShowsSeeingAmbitionFirst TimeAspectDaily LifeMy Ambition Author:Brassai
“Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.” MatterFactsRealityFoundIllusionNo Matter WhatPhotographEnthusiasmResidual Author:Robert Heinecken
“The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.” ObjectsPhotograph Author:Robert Heinecken
“I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLooksHas BeensSaidSchoolFeltSituationCuttingComfortablePhotographBizarre Author:Robert Heinecken