PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES
“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.”
— 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
“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
“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
“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
“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
“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
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.”
— 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
“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
“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
“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
“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
“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
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
— Henri Cartier Bresson
“Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.”