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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
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
— Robert Bresson
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
— Robert Bresson
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
— Joel Sternfeld
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
— Robert Bresson
Practice the precept: find without seeking
— Robert Bresson
I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
— 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
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
— Robert Bresson
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
— Robert 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
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
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
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
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Give me inspiration over information.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Create expectations to fulfil them.
— Robert Bresson
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
— Robert Bresson
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Unbalance so as to re-balance.
— Robert Bresson
One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.
— Robert 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
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Empty the pond to get the fish.
— Robert 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
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
— Robert Bresson
Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— 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
- How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The tricky bit was figuring out where we were because I couldn't imagine anyone, God included, daring to send Lilith Bresson to hell.
— Tabitha McGowan
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
— Robert Bresson
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Robert Bresson
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— 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
The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.
— Robert Bresson
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible.
— Robert Bresson
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.
— Robert Bresson
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
— Robert Bresson
Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.
— Robert 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 Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.
— Robert 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
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.
— Robert Bresson
Lilith Bresson, innocent of everything except having a bastard for a father, took her new fate with a calm that was terrifying.
— Tabitha McGowan
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
— 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
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
— 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
Be the first to see what you see as you see it.
— Robert Bresson
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
— Robert Bresson
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.
— Robert 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
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
— Robert Bresson
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Human faces are such a world!
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing! — Imogen Cunningham
it never would have been the same. Start stealing! — Imogen Cunningham
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
— Robert Bresson
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.
— Robert Bresson
The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.
— Robert Bresson
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
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
— Robert Bresson
The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
— Robert 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
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
— Robert Bresson
Life is once. Forever.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
— Robert Bresson
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
— 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
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson