Andre Kertesz Quotes

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

I firmly believe in the value of books: it's the way to pass on our work, and it allows us to explore new ways to express our creativity. In this specific case, Mariano Vivanco shot some images of David for this project's purpose.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Content dictates form and style.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.