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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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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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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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 is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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