"A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson

"A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer."

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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98 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson has 98 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too…
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin…
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not…

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More Dancer Quotes

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One is born to be a great dancer. — George Balanchine
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am not the first straight dancer or the last. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nobody is born a dancer. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which… — Warren G. Bennis
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years.… — Christina Aguilera
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand

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