Memories, thank God, cannot be photographed … No, to be honest, even if I had all the material in the world in front of me, notes from the First World War, letters, passports, family photographs, love letters and everything that attaches itself to an eventful life like mussels to a ship’s keel, I still wouldn’t have used it as people would expect here … Yes, I love the half-light, but please don’t confuse the half-light with blurriness and anything washed-out.

—George Grosz