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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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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
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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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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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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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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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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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