34 Quotes by Andre Kertesz

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

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

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

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.

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.