Quotes by Rene Burri - Page 1

I never thought I would become a photographer.
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A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
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Cameras
Checks
Digital
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My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
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Being There
Right Moment
Result
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I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.
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Black And White
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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
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Buttons
Moments
Photograph
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A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
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Photograph
Come
Back
Button
Will Back Never
Moment
Press
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One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.
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Book
Publish
These Days
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To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
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Black And White
Nostalgia
Photography
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I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
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Columbia
Space Shuttle
Shuttle
Witnessed
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If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
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Photograph
Pulse
Speak
Successful
Capturing
Truly
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The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.
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Access
Experiments
Giving
Magic
Always Me New
Always Where Me
Camera
Me New Always
Magic Wand
Places
Wand
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I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
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Rigidity
Switzerland
Influenced
Protestant
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What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
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Documents
Intensity
Counts
Document
Experienced
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I suddenly had to chase after my pictures... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.
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Chase
Rush
Suddenly
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I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
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Photography
Click
Decisive
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I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.
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Colour
Inventing
Luxury
Theory
Time Me Never
Expressing
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On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.
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Eye
Heart
Photography
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Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.
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Brutal
Looking Back
Photo Shoots
Qualified
Torture
Tough
Back
Photo
Shoots
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It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.
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Grandfather
Magician
Absolute
Learnt
Picasso
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In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.
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Cuba
Months
Revolution
Six
South America
Contacts
Missed
Rebels
Send
Spent
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For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.
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Approach
Inspired
Photography
Ultimate
Man Me Go
Image
Picasso
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