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Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Activity category:
Photography is an immediate reaction; drawing is a meditation. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Creativity category:
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Humanity category:
Human faces are such a world! (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Insecurity category:
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Interest category:
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Masters category:
Whatever we have done, Kertesz did first. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Meaning category:
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. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Meaning category:
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Memory category:
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Perception category:
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:
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)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:
For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:
To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Portraiture category:
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. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Seeing category:
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Seeing category:
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Simplicity category:
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Subject category:
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Time category:
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Work category:
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
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