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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
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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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