Decisive moments Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson Download Open image “There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decisive moments Doe Moments This world Time World
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
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
