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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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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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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
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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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...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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Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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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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