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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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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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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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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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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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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
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