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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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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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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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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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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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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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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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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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