Brassaï Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
-
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
-
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
-
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
-
There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
-
I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
-
Girls run the world.
-
I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
-
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
-
People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.
-
It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
-
A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
-
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
-
I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
-
I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.
-
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
-
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
-
I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.
-
I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
-
Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
-
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
-
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
-
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.
