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
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — 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
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that… — 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
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
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
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the… — 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
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
“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — 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
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
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
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
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
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
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
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
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
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
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
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share
