The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
BrassaiThe 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.
BrassaiThe wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
BrassaiBeauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
BrassaiMy images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.
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