Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Explore a curated collection of 11 quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut o — Henri Cartier-Bresson
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on eart — Henri Cartier-Bresson
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually pe — Henri Cartier-Bresson
— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the c — Henri Cartier-Bresson