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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
— Joel Sternfeld
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
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 myrelationship 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
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
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
In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody.
— 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
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.
— 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
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
— 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 like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
— 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
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
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
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
— 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
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
— 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
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
— 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 photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Human faces are such a world!
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.
— 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
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
— 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 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
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
— 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
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
— 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
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
— 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
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Life is once. Forever.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
— 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
Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— 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
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
