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Henri Cartier-Bresson has 98 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the…
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The…
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera…
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that…
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are…
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
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How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe…
— Barbara Stanwyck
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One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is…
— Arthur Miller
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We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised…
— Bob Proctor
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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control:…
— Nancy Gibbs
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