Andre Kertesz Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Two seconds are a thousand years.

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

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

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.

Photography is my only language.