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Henri Cartier-Bresson Art Quotes - (10 quotes)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Humanity category:

Human faces are such a world! (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Masters category:

Whatever we have done, Kertesz did first. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Meaning category:

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:

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)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:

For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Photography category:

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Seeing category:

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - From the Simplicity category:

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Editor: Robert Genn

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