"Thinking should be done before and after, not……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing."

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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98 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson has 98 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too…
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin…
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 Photographing Quotes

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You adapt to who you're photographing. — David Bailey
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're… — David Bailey
It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco.… — Albert Watson
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very… — Dorothea Lange
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye… — Josef Koudelka
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly… — William Albert Allard
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're… — Mary Ellen Mark
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. — Minor White
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the… — Mary Ellen Mark
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it… — Joel Meyerowitz
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag

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