Beauty 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?
BrassaiThe wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
BrassaiIt is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
BrassaiA poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
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