Fall Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute” quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson — Download Open image

“The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute”

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Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile…

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

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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline…

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

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Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut…

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What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

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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…

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Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its…

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Give me inspiration over information.

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