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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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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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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 through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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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 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 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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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 an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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