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When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese. — Susan Sontag

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Of course it's all luck. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

You just have to live and life will give you pictures. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

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

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Life is once. Forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

- How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. — Henri Cartier-Bresson