Best Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes
- It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. Camera
- A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. Force
- Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. All
- The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. Camera
- Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. Attentive
- This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… Coalition
- Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out… Always Cut
- While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. Conscious
- There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… Camera
- Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. Aspect
- The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… Detail
- In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. Animal
- One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. Closed
- Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. Camera
- There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment. Decisive
- One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. Fishing
- As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement… Company
- Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. Inspirational
- I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do… Anything Else
- In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody. Inspirational
- Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. Forever
- Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity… Artificially
- Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners… Activity
- All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing. All
- With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without. Closed
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