Decisive moments Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson Download Open image “Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decisive moments Forever Gone Gone forever Inspiring photography Missing Moment Moment Miss Moments Oop Moment Photographer Photography Street photography Time
You never miss a good thing 'til it's gone, I want it all, now I want it all back — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“you will perhaps miss the part of you that is gone but do not fear: all is for the best in the world and… — Tah the Trickster Copy Share Image
We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star… — Libba Bray Copy Share
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger which forces… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
