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Moment Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes…
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap…
- Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
- The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
- 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…
- There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
- Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
- He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
- Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the…
- The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
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