"One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing."
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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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More Fishing Quotes
This quote is filed under Fishing Quotes,
one of 450 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car…
— Joseph Barbera
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or…
— Dave Barry
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about…
— Wade Boggs
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Probably fishing is my first passion.
— Luke Bryan
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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to…
— Luke Bryan
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of…
— John Buchan
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in…
— Alex Blackwell
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