Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #photography #artists

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#perseverance #photography #art

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

#breath #capture #converge #faculties #fleeting

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#photography #art

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

#back #come #continually #contrivance #deal

Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#photography

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#event #fraction #me #photography #recognition

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

#camera #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #his

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

#before #confines #craved #essence #eyes

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

#any #because #captured #during #everything