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• The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch
• Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian. — Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of… — Paul Strand
• Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start… — Imogen Cunningham
• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or… — Roger Ebert
• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest… — Sebastiao Salgado
• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,… — Burton Silverman
• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith

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