The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — 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
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. — 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
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must… — 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
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
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
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
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
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the… — 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 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
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't… — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — 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? Do you… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Image
