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

Henri CartierBresson
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud

  2. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorothea Lange

  3. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. - Aleksandar Hemon

  4. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

  5. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw

More Quotes By Henri CartierBresson
  1. Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

  2. It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

  3. Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

  4. We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

  5. Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

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