"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept"
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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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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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