Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes About Giving

• Sólo tienes que vivir y la vida te dará imágenes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

• Fotografiar significa reconocer -simultáneamente y en una fracción de segundo- tanto el hecho en sí como la rigurosa organización de las formas percibidas visualmente que le dan sentido. Es poner la cabeza, el ojo y el corazón en el mismo eje.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Heart, Mean

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

• El acto creativo no dura más que un breve momento, un instante relámpago de toma y daca, el tiempo justo para que puedas nivelar la cámara y atrapar a la fugaz presa en tu cajita.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Fotografía, Arte, Creatividad

• The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Organization, Expression

  "Cartier-Bresson's classic is back - but his Decisive Moment has passed" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2014.

• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Numbers, Giving, Negative

• Para dar sentido al mundo, uno tiene que sentirse implicado en lo que encuadra. Esta actitud requiere concentración, disciplina mental, sensibilidad y sentido de la geometría.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Attitude, Order, Discipline

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

• Give me inspiration over information.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiration, Giving, Information

• There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Independent, Light

  "A life in pictures". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1998.

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