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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
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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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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
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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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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
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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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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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