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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
Film Director
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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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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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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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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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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
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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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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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