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
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — 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 not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — 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
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing... — 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
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
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — 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
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
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
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
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
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — 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
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
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — 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
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not… — 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
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator… — 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
