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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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