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Henri Cartier Bresson Inspirational Quotes (62)

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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
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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 fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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