Essence Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I'm looking…

— Stuart Franklin

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

— Shomei Tomatsu

I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in a new…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

— Aisling Bea

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

— John Pfahl

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff,…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

— Minor White