Quote: Henri Cartier-Bresson
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Quote: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Quote – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Camera – LIFE Library of Photography”
Quote: Henri Cartier-Bresson
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photography Year 1980, LIFE Library of Photography , Page: 25
Quote: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. 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 – American Photo, September/October 1997 , Page: 76
Quote: Henri Cartier-Bresson – on photojournalism
“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? While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing. Sometimes we have the feeling that we’ve taken a great photo, and yet we continue to [...]
