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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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...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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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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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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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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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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 nothing-it's life that interests me.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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