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
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — 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
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
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — 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
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
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
