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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
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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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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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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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
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I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
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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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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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