Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes About Composition

Quotes about: Composition

• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. 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. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

• 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

• ...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Taken, Dark

• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Real, Essence

• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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