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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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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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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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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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