Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

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• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Heart

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• One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Soul

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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

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• You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

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• There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Doe, World, Moments

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• Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Intuition, Documentaries

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• Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Sharpness, Bourgeois

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspirational, Firsts, Photograph

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• In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Silence, Portraits

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• 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, Way, Originality

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• To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Heart, Eye, Axes

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photograph

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• Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Vanishing, Photographer

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• Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Mean, Expression

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• Give me inspiration over information.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiration, Giving, Information

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• I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eternity, Photograph, Instant

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• For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Book, Intuition

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Distance, Waiting

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• In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Details, Littles

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

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  Photography, Self, Intuition

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• Life is once. Forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Life Is

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• It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Photographer

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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