Decisive Moments Quotes

• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

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• Para mí, la fotografía es el reconocimiento simultáneo, en una fracción de segundo, de la importancia de un acontecimiento.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). "El ojo de la mente: Escritos sobre fotografía y fotógrafos"

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• 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.

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• El momento decisivo de la evolución humana es perpetuo. Por eso, los movimientos espirituales revolucionarios que declaran que todo lo anterior carece de valor están en lo cierto, pues aún no ha ocurrido nada.

  Franz Kafka

  Espiritual, Movimiento, Evolución

  Franz Kafka (1991). "Los cuadernos del Octavo Azul"

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• En fotografía, lo más pequeño puede ser un gran tema. El pequeño detalle humano puede convertirse en un Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Details, Littles

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). "El ojo de la mente: Escritos sobre fotografía y fotógrafos"

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• Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Eye, Media

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• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

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• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Mean, Expression

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

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Believe, Discovery

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). "El ojo de la mente: Escritos sobre fotografía y fotógrafos"

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• There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Doe, World, Moments

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• I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

  Angela Merkel

  Trying, Needs, Courageous

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• The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Drama, Years

  Fred Ritchin (1990). "A nuestra propia imagen: la revolución fotográfica que se avecina : cómo la tecnología informática está cambiando nuestra visión del mundo".

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• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  Lane Evans

  War, June, World

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Athlete, Moments

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• The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Creativity, Giving, Pieces

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• Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Rain, Taken

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• Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Fall, Science

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• I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Eye, Gloves, Moments

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• Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Add, Moments, Metaphor

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• I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Elements, Lines

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Horse, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• Nunca se conoce mejor el carácter de una persona que observando su comportamiento en momentos decisivos.... Siempre es el peligro el que obliga a aflorar las fuerzas y capacidades más ocultas de un ser humano.

  Stefan Zweig

  Strength, Character, Human Nature

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