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.

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• 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.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Life
  • Home
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Thought

• 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?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Death
  • Best

• 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.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Music
  • Dance

• I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Fun
  • Lyrics

• I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Black
  • Law

• Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • People
  • Up
  • Support

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Time
  • Space
  • Moments

• These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

  

  James P. Cannon
  • Live
  • Country
  • Today

• Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Good
  • Free

• I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• 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.

  

  Brassaï
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Surrealism