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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

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

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

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible. — Robert Bresson

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

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

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

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

- How do you make your pictures?
- 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

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure. — Robert Bresson

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. — Robert Bresson

In every photographer there is something of a stroller. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Let nothing be changed and all be different. — Robert Bresson

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Life is once. Forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Create expectations to fulfil them. — Robert Bresson

Be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence. — Robert Bresson

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — 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

Empty the pond to get the fish. — 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

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. — 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 is nothing-it's life that interests me. — Henri Cartier-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

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them. — Robert Bresson

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power. — Robert Bresson

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

Be the first to see what you see as you see it. — 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

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

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

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. — Robert 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

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. — Robert Bresson

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — 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

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert 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

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain. — Robert Bresson

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. — Robert Bresson

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. — 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

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert 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

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

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman. — Andrei Tarkovsky

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

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. — Robert Bresson

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. — Robert Bresson

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best
that is inspiration. — 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

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you. — 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

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. — Robert Bresson

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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