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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
Journalist
Painter
Photographer
Photojournalist
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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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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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...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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Of course it's all luck.
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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 all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
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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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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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