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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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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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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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Of course it's all luck.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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