What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. Henri Cartier-Bresson More Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson More Quotes From Henri Cartier-Bresson The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. Henri Cartier-Bresson moments eternity photography While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. Henri Cartier-Bresson leica photography photographer Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life. Henri Cartier-Bresson before-and-after mind thinking In every photographer there is something of a stroller. Henri Cartier-Bresson strollers photographer The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. Henri Cartier-Bresson brushes scar world One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. Henri Cartier-Bresson photography fishing water As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility. Henri Cartier-Bresson judgement responsibility people I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes! Henri Cartier-Bresson space waiting joy Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. Henri Cartier-Bresson photograph done thinking What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) Henri Cartier-Bresson professors littles thinking A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. Henri Cartier-Bresson dancer pockets photography I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life. Henri Cartier-Bresson photography photographer trying During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. Henri Cartier-Bresson leica photography too-late Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Henri Cartier-Bresson cutting photography reality Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing. Henri Cartier-Bresson vanishing photography photographer 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 independent light photography This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements. Henri Cartier-Bresson photography real essence 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 long country travel In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. Henri Cartier-Bresson We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. Henri Cartier-Bresson memory back things earth
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