Quotes by : Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

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

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no....

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

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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

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,....

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.