"Human faces are such a world!" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Human faces are such a world!"
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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98 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too…
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin…
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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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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with…
— Margaret Atwood
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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