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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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 a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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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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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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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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If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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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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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