Brassa has that rare gift which so many artists despisenormal vision.

He has no need to distort or

deform, no need to lie or to preach. He would not alter the living arrangement of the world by one
iota; he sees the world precisely as it is and as few men in the world see it because seldom do we
encounter a human being endowed with natural vision. Everything to which the eye attaches itself
acquires value and significance, a value and significance, I might say, heretofore avoided or
ignored. - Miller, Henry. The Eye of Paris.
Brassas guiding aesthetic principle was to find poetry and transcendence in the everyday
Robert Staney Martin
Although he worked alongside the Surrealists, he was not of them Robert Stanley Martin
The most striking aspect of Brassas interior shots is the frequent use of mirrors to expand and
inflect the scene being depicted Robert Stanley Martin
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to
speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more
complete will our concept of this thing, our objectivity be. - Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the
Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo -