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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
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