Not what I see, but what I feel," he once explained.Unlike Brassaï, his worldly, Paris-based compatriot, Kertész was a poor self-publicist.
"He does say a good many of the things I think," Mortimer once explained.
Far from it offering an aid to depicting life as it really was, Lassnig believed that photography's inability to delve below the surface of things meant that it offered nothing more than a persuasive lie: "I need the real body, real air," she once explained, "When I paint I want everything to be as direct as possible".
"When I stand in front of the Graham clock," he once explained, "I feel something, perhaps, of the satisfaction Graham must have enjoyed when he sat and looked at his creation, listened to its measured, quiet tick, felt its living presence and stately dignity".
"The only way I will kill Adrian is when I die myself," she once explained.
As he once explained, "I have been in favor of Lords reform almost since I have been there, because any House which has me in it really needs its head examined".
As he once explained, "I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures, and uncertain endings.
Born in Jerusalem on Dec. 24, 1927, Dorothea Noelle Naomi Porter was raised in Damascus, Syria, and briefly attended the Royal Holloway College in London, until she was expelled because, she once explained, "I wanted to study art".
