Decisive moments 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

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

— Beaumont Newhall

The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether…

— Peter Weir

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin