Willy Ronis quotes

“I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart”
-- Willy Ronis

Source : Willy Ronis, Sylvia Böhmer, Matthias Harder, Nathalie Neumann (2004). “Willy Ronis: "La vie en passant"”, Prestel Publishing

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“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”
-- Willy Ronis

Source : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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“I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.”
-- Willy Ronis

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“I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.”
-- Willy Ronis

Source : Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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“I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.”

“Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!”

“Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”

“God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...”

“It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.”

“I tasted the bread and wine of equality.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

“There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.”

“Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.”

“If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press

“People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.”

Source : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.