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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
Film Director
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
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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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Of course it's all luck.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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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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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 an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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 the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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