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Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes: The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
         

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.


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



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

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



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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept



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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.



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

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



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



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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.



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

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





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