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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.
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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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Of course it's all luck.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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...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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