165 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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

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

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

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

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

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