Activity Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty…

— Raoul Hausmann

“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human…

— Eudora Welty

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often…

— Rudolf Arnheim

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

— Anton Chekhov

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

— Edward Burtynsky

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford