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Eye Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of…
- Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of…
- In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
- It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
- Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
- 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…
- One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
- 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.
- With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
- To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise…
- A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can…
- To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
- One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila