Quotes by : Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

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

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for....

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's....

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery....

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory....

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is....

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization....

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality.....

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is,....