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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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
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Photojournalist
Henri Cartier Bresson
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Nothing
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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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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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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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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