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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, 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 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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The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
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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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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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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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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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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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