André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

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.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.