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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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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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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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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