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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.
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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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 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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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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