Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. 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 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 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 photographyheartmean
