"It is an illusion that photos are made……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they… - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head."

— 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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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain
I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant

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