Quotes from Andre Kertesz

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 am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

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

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

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

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.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.