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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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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
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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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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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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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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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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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