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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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Of course it's all luck.
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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