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Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

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Andre Kertesz
Age: 91 †
Born: 1894
Born: February 7
Died: 1985
Died: September 29
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Writer
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Two seconds are a thousand years.
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The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.
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I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
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My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
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The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
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Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
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Seeing is not enough you have to feel what you photograph
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You do not have to imagine things reality gives you all you need.
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People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
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I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
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I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
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The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
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Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important
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