Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Henri Cartier-Bresson on Wise Famous Quotes.
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography.
relationship to photography.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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.
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
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.
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.
For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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.
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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 is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
All I care about these days is painting - photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.