Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy … people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Give me inspiration over information.

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.

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.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

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

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation – everything except a stage set.