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“Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!”

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I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or…

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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still…

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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners.…

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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with…

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So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the…

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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being…

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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Joel Sternfeld

All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

Peter York

When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we…

Sebastiao Salgado

I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.

Lisa Snowdon

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Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even…

Joel Sternfeld

In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

Burton Silverman

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Edmundo Desnoes

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.

Philip Jones Griffiths

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

Nick Zinner

Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I…

Paul Strand

While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of…

Lincoln Kirstein

The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A…

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