Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
-- Henri Cartier-BressonSource : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
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“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
-- Henri Cartier-BressonSource : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
-- Henri Cartier-BressonSource : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
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“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
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“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
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“Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.”
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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 that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
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“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
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“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
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“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
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“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”
-- Henri Cartier-BressonSource : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
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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 all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.”
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“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
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“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”
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“Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
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“Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.”
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“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
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“A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.”
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“In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.”
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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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“During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.”
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“He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.”
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“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.”
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“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
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“The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.”
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“All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.”
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“One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.”
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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