165 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light – even when there isn’t any of it.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time.

Of course it’s all luck.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

Only a fraction of the camera’s possibilities interests me – the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

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.