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The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. “A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

The question is, do we always cut out what we should?” ­- Henri Cartier-Bresson “Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. “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 “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson 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 “Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. “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 “For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson “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.” “Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson One must not take photos.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson “A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.” ― 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 Here’s a selection of my favorite quotes by photographer Henri Cartier Bresson.