Intuition Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

8 Intuition quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s eight brief statements give a taste of how a photographer translates instinct into visual storytelling.

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Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

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I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then…

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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual…

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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an…

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“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual…

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Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to…

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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

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Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut…

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

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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…

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Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its…

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Give me inspiration over information.

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Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

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The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

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