Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

Composition Eternity Eyes Giving Heart Intuition Memories

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

12 Copy quote
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

World

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010). “Henri Cartier-Bresson: the modern century”, Hubsta Ltd

22 Copy quote
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”

57 Copy quote
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

31 Copy quote
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

56 Copy quote
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”

68 Copy quote
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fall, Pieces, World

21 Copy quote
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.

8 Copy quote
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Memes

7 Copy quote
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”

51 Copy quote
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Reality, Lasts, Last Words

12 Copy quote
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Thinking, Done

13 Copy quote
Of course it's all luck.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Luck, Photographer

30 Copy quote
As 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Echoes, People

43 Copy quote
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Independent, Light

"A life in pictures". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1998.

5 Copy quote
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

8 Copy quote
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Long, Wonderful

7 Copy quote
Human faces are such a world!

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Humanity, World, Faces

9 Copy quote
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Country, Travel, Long

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

8 Copy quote
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Important, Photographer

6 Copy quote
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Leica, Great Photography

9 Copy quote
We cannot develop and print a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Memories, Vanishing, Print

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

7 Copy quote
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Kissing, Gun, Cameras

12 Copy quote
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Technology, Important

18 Copy quote
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Photographer, Art Photography

27 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Robert Doisneau

Brassai

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Follow

Born: August 22, 1908
Died: August 3, 2004
Occupation: Photographer
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics