Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Facts, Common

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

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• I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

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  Space, Joy, Waiting

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• Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

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  Photography, Balance, Elements

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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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  Photography, Reality, Want

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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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Memories, Leica

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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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  Photography, Running, Believe

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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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  Photography, Trying, Photographer

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• Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

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  Photography, Cutting, Reality

  "Caitlyn Jenner, Kate Moss and Joey Essex: in the news for all the wrong reasons" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2015.

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• The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

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  Photography, Moments, Eternity

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• One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

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  Photography, Fishing, Water

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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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  Photography, Organization, Facts

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• A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

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  Photography, Dancer, Pockets

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• I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

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  Photography, Painting, Concerned

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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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  Book, Mean, Expression

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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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  Photography, Today, Spontaneity

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• Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

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  Thinking, Done, Photograph

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• What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

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  Thinking, Littles, Professors

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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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  Photography, Real, Essence

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• As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

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  Responsibility, People, Judgement

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