Manuel Alvarez Bravo Quotes

• I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

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  Thinking, Light, Life And Death

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• A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

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  Eye, Past, Use

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• Shoot what you see, not what you think.

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  Pensar

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• I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

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  Photography, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

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  Photography, Art, Capacity

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• I give the moment permanence.

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  Photography, Giving, Moments

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• The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

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  Photography, Art, Matter

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• I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

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  Philosophy, Eye, Artist

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• One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits

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  Artist, Reality, Thinking

  Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

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• Antes de la Conquista todo el arte era del pueblo, y el arte popular nunca ha dejado de existir en México. El arte llamado popular es de carácter fugitivo, con menos de las características impersonales e intelectuales de las escuelas. Es obra del talento nutrido por la experiencia personal y la de la comunidad, más que tomado de las experiencias de pintores de otras épocas y otras culturas.

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  Arte, Tomada, Escuela

  Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture

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