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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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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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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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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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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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 love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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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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