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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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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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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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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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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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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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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