{"id":12018,"date":"2014-03-21T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2014-03-21T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:50:53","slug":"29-quotes-by-photographer-henri-cartier-bresson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/12018\/29-quotes-by-photographer-henri-cartier-bresson\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Quotes By Photographer Henri Cartier Bresson"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere’s a selection of \u00a0my favorite quotes by photographer Henri Cartier Bresson<\/a>.
\n\u201cIt is an illusion that photos are made with the camera\u2026 they are made with the eye, heart and head.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cTo photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cYour first 10,000 photographs are your worst.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cA photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cOf all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThe picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThe 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.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cTo me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cPhotography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cYour eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.\u201d
\n\u201cFor me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cAbove 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.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cMemory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. 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.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cPhotographers 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.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThis 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 \u2013 an organic coordination of visual elements.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cReality 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?\u201d \u00ad-\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cWhile we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing.\u201d –\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cWe 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.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cA photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.\u201d –\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cIn photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThe 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.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/span>
\n\u201cAs time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It’s a trace.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cAs 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.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.\u201d-\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cPhotography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cThe intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cI believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cYou just have to live and life will give you pictures.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0Henri Cartier-Bresson
\n\u201cOf course it’s all luck.\u201d – Henri Cartier-Bresson
\nRead more photographer’s quotes here.<\/a>
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