Brassaï Quotes
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium.. .if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.
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There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
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Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.
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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
