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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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More quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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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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