Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Heart

• Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Photographer

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

• One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Soul

• 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

  Photography, Heart, Mean

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

• 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

• To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Heart, Eye, Axes

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

• To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Heart, Eye

• One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Vision, Looks

• In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Art, Heart, Eye

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Photography, Eye, Essence

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

• With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Looks

  "Henri Cartier-Bresson Dies at 95" by the Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2004.

• 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

• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

• I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Men, Watches

  "An island of pleasure gond adrift" in LIFE magazine, p.42, March 15, 1963.

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