Henri Cartier BressonThinkers

The Photograph is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

A Photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Photograph is sometimes a quick thing like a chekhov story, containing a whole world in them which one is unconscious of while shooting.

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

Photography is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.

Photography is a question of millimeters in what differentiates a good picture and a mediocre picture.

Photography is a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

Photography is about holding one's breath. When all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Photography is about taking the photograph and not in what is done with it afterwards, for hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Photography is about the act of capturing the photo. Once the picture is in the box, one need not be that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Photography is an immediate reaction... drawing is a meditation.

Photography is concerned with 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.

Photography is instant drawing'.

Photography is memory flowing at the same speed as the event.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Photography is the recognition simultaneously and within a fraction of a second both of the fact itself and of the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.