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
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — 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
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
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There… — 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. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Image
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of… — 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
