“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
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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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
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“ In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 403
“ In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 591
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Success depends on one's general culture, on one's set of values, one's clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Success depends on one's general culture, on one's set of values, one's clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 2.2K
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