Andre Kertesz Quotes

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

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

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

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.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

Photography is my only language.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

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

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.