Quotes by Expression 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 eyephotographyexpression Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. Henning Mankell clothesexpressiondream 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 eyephotographyexpression The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographyorganizationexpression The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. Henry Adams strikeshabitexpression 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. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographyexpressionmean Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. recognitionexpressionsympathy It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. Helena Bonham Carter makeupexpressioncharacter I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple. Henri Matisse colorexpressioncountry For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. Henri Cartier-Bresson expressionmeanbook The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. Henry Adams strikeshabitexpression I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old. Henry Clay passionexpressionlong Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. Henry A. Kissinger expressionmenart It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. Henri Cartier-Bresson simplicityexpressionmean Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. Henry Fuseli commandeyeexpression You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. Henri Matisse emotionexpressionideas It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. Henri Matisse artistexpressionmean What I am after, above all, is expression. Henri Matisse expression Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse expressionfunnyart I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way. Henri Matisse eyeimaginationexpression«5253545556575859606162»
