Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify… — 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
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — 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
“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — 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
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such… — 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
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you… — 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
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
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — 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
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. — 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
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of… — 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
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
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
