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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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 love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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...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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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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