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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.
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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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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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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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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 only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
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