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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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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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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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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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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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 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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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