165 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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

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.

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

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.

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.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.