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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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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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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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