Quotations

"I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them."

— John Bradshaw, American theologian, born 1933

"Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power."

— Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille, born 1809

"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."

— Constantin Brancusi, Romanian-French sculptor, born 1876

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things. It is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."

— Constantin Brancusi, Romanian-French sculptor, born 1876

"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."

— Marlon Brando, American actor, born 1924

"If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this. See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself."

— Bill Brandt, German-English photographer, born May 2, 1904

"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."

— Georges Braque, French painter, born 1882

"Art is a wound turned into light."

— Georges Braque, French painter, born 1882

"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented."

— Georges Braque, French painter, born 1882

"To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain."

— Brassai, Hungarian photographer, born 1899

"I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary."

— Brassai, Hungarian photographer, born 1899

"My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary."

— Brassai, Hungarian photographer, born 1899

"We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods."

— Brassai, Hungarian photographer, born 1899

"A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time."

— Brassai, Hungarian photographer, born 1899