"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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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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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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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come…
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month…
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
— Dirk Benedict
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
— Matthew Bourne
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance…
— Edward Albee
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