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
“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — 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
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — 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
