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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
Film Director
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More quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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Of course it's all luck.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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