"A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back."

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Source : "Photographer René Burri's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2010.

Rene Burri

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“Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.”
“No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I had people who were around me, people that I put a lot of trust in that sort of messed me over. So after that I said, only I can look back over my life and say I was responsible for whom I hired. I was responsible for how I managed my money. So I decided I wanted to do it myself. I understood the business of football. And because I can understand the business of football, I decided it's the best decision for me to be an agent. It made the most sense and I think a lot of players are opening their eyes to it as well.”
“The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.”
“If I was going to sum up my approach to this whole mind issue, I would say this: the question is often formulated in a very bad way - for example, by posing the question in terms of stuff. It's better to start with the things we do know: for example, that there are people and other thinking creatures, who have mental capacities. Our next step should be to say something about these capacities.”
“I always felt people should live with animals.”
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
“Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.”

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