Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reali...

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is...

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there i...

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organiz...

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance o...

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough fo...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

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

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no...

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the di...

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and trans...

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the in...

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us...