Brassaï Quotes
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.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
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I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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Books wind into the heart.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your essence and strips you of every pretense. It reminds you that you are no better than all the women who have come before you, but also no worse.
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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.
