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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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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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I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
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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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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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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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Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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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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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.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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