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 More Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson More Quotes From Henri Cartier-Bresson It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson eyephotographyheart One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. Henri Cartier-Bresson eyephotographysoul Sharpness is a bourgeois concept Henri Cartier-Bresson sharpnessbourgeoisphotography Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographymissingforever In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier-Bresson detailsphotographylittles 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 originalityphotographyway For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. Henri Cartier-Bresson intuitionphotographybook Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographyexpressionmean To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis Henri Cartier-Bresson axeseyeheart 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 eyephotographyexpression Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Henri Cartier-Bresson documentariesintuitionphotography You just have to live and life will give you pictures. Henri Cartier-Bresson leicaphotographygiving To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Henri Cartier-Bresson second-chancephotographyinspiring 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 creativityphotographyart I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens. Henri Cartier-Bresson intuitionphotographyself Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. Henri Cartier-Bresson eyephotographyphotographer Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. Henri Cartier-Bresson drawingphotographyinspiring In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody. Henri Cartier-Bresson portraitssilencephotography 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 echoesphotographypeople Of course it's all luck. Henri Cartier-Bresson luckphotographyphotographer
