Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• 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

• In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Details, Littles

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

• For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Book, Intuition

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

• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

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

• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Drawing

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

• 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

  Photography, Way, Originality

• 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”

• 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

  Photography, Reality, Joy

• Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Sharpness, Bourgeois

• You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

• Of course it's all luck.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Luck, Photographer

• 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”

• 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

  Photography, Hunters, Next

• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

• Life is once. Forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Life Is

• 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's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

• 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

  Photography, Skins, Trying

  "Philosophers set in stone: Steve Pyke's piercing portraits" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

• What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

• 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

  Photography, Earth, Vanishing

• ...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

• It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Photographer, Art Photography

• The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lincoln Kirstein, Beaumont Newhall (1963). “Photographs”

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