165 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take photographs is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.

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

To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there’s nothing left of truth.

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

Photographier: c’est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l’oeil et le coeur.

It’s wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They’re quick things and there’s a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.