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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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