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Inspirational Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
- Life is once. Forever.
- You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
- Of course it's all luck.
- While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
- In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
- Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
- In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
- With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
- Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
- Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
- In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
- It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
- We cannot develop and print a memory.
- I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
- It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
- Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.
- One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento