For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
