"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
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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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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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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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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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