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• For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

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  Attitude, Moving, Movement

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

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• The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

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  Photography, Thinking, People

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

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• Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

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  Memories, Taken, Important

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

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  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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

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• A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

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  Photography, Views, Photographer

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

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  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Photography, Earth, Vanishing

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• 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.

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  Photography, Reality, Joy

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

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  Eye, Vision, Looks

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• The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

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  Thinking, Differences, Essentials

  "Henri Cartier-Bresson: 'There Are No Maybes'". Interview with Sheila Turner-Seed, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. 1971.

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• He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

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  Photography, Realizing, Moments

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• Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

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  Photography, Important, Leica

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

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

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  Photography, Heart, Eye

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• In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

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  Attitude, Order, Discipline

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

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• Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

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  Photography, Together, Cameras

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• As 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.

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  Photography, Mean, Expression

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• Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

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  Photography, Thinking, Secret

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• In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

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  Photography, Animal, Prey

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• 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.

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  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

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  Artist, Drawing, Silence

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• I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

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  Photography, Believe, Discovery

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

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

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  Photography, Leica, Photographer

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• Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

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  Photography, Intuition, Stage

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• Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

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  Variation, Strict

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• 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.

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  Photography, Skins, Trying

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

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