165 Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

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