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Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot. — Imre Kertesz

Two seconds are a thousand years. — Andre Kertesz

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp. — Imre Kertesz

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what? — Imre Kertesz

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts. — Imre Kertesz

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions. — Imre Kertesz

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

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. — Imre Kertesz

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertesz

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. — Imre Kertesz

Photography is my only language. — Andre Kertesz

A book is either autobiography or a novel. — Imre Kertesz

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. — Imre Kertesz

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them. — Andre Kertesz

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom. — Imre Kertesz

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertesz

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

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate. — Imre Kertesz

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. — Imre Kertesz

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation. — Andre Kertesz

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

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me. — Andre Kertesz

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance. — Andre Kertesz

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution. — Imre Kertesz

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need. — Andre Kertesz

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important — Andre Kertesz

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist. — Andre Kertesz

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else. — Andre Kertesz

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. — Imre Kertesz

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself ... — Andre Kertesz

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise. — Imre Kertesz

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one. — Imre Kertesz

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act! — Imre Kertesz

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

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself. — Andre Kertesz

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye. — Andre Kertesz

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph — Andre Kertesz

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all. — Imre Kertesz

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all. — Imre Kertesz