"...it is seldom indeed that a composition which……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room."
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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98 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson has 98 quotes on this site.
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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 chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
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To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
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