"Photography is like fencing. You must keep your……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust."
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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 Distance Quotes
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
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It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
— Lewis Black
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
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