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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
Journalist
Painter
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Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier- Bresson
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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).
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
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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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
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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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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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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