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Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word. Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Of course it's all luck. Of course it's all luck.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography. I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody. In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment. There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Give me inspiration over information. Give me inspiration over information.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey. In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it. And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment. Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: You just have to live and life will give you pictures. You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes. I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible. Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Human faces are such a world! Human faces are such a world!
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown. It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Sharpness is a bourgeois concept Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you. Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: One eye looks within, the other eye looks without. One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without. With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Life is once. Forever. Life is once. Forever.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: In every photographer there is something of a stroller. In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: - How do you make your pictures? - I don't know, it's not important. - How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: All I care about these days is painting - photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing. All I care about these days is painting - photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst. Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight. I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes: They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

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