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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.
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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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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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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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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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