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....

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

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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....

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

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