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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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 whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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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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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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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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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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Of course it's all luck.
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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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