Top 100 Cartier's Quotes

#1. Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #23040
#2. I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Jacques Cartier

Cartier's Quotes #40100
#3. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #48041
#4. Human faces are such a world!

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #52553
#5. 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

Cartier's Quotes #64364
#6. 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #80893
#7. As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #98588
#8. Give me inspiration over information.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #105856
#9. Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #115287
#10. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #138210
#11. As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images ... We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #139169
#12. It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Nora Roberts

Cartier's Quotes #148529
#13. I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #181554
#14. The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #216034
#15. I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds - the one inside us and the one outside us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #217964
#16. 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

Cartier's Quotes #230679
#17. 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #270270
#18. Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #277250
#19. The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #278849
#20. It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #281733
#21. He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #285037
#22. I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

David Hockney

Cartier's Quotes #290904
#23. Life is once. Forever.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #305798
#24. To photograph is to hold 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #323305
#25. Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #359032
#26. Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

Imogen Cunningham

Cartier's Quotes #392101
#27. Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #392266
#28. What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #405309
#29. You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #406743
#30. While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #427867
#31. Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #437884
#32. 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

Cartier's Quotes #463131
#33. In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

Cartier Martin

Cartier's Quotes #494884
#34. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #498882
#35. We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #524064
#36. Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #541854
#37. Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #551048
#38. Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.

Jacques Cartier

Cartier's Quotes #561175
#39. In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #579036
#40. The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #595011
#41. There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #628499
#42. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #634771
#43. Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #642375
#44. Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #648135
#45. I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #664372
#46. In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

Burton Silverman

Cartier's Quotes #687576
#47. I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.

Lisa Snowdon

Cartier's Quotes #690159
#48. To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #719128
#49. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Joel Sternfeld

Cartier's Quotes #737584
#50. A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #757919
#51. I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Mary Ellen Mark

Cartier's Quotes #808807
#52. I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #850044
#53. I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #857751
#54. I love both real and fake jewelry. My kids make me necklaces, and I wear those, too. Every day, I wear my gold wedding band and the Cartier watch my husband gave me.

Aerin Lauder

Cartier's Quotes #862934
#55. Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #863185
#56. It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #871444
#57. Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

Cartier Martin

Cartier's Quotes #916496
#58. I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #944761
#59. The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #949279
#60. And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

William Eggleston

Cartier's Quotes #969676
#61. Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #977588
#62. The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #979269
#63. When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Susan Sontag

Cartier's Quotes #996874
#64. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #997788
#65. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1006679
#66. Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1019851
#67. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1030084
#68. - How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1036194
#69. In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1040072
#70. Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1058485
#71. It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1078420
#72. In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1106779
#73. In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1107270
#74. And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1121984
#75. I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must.

Gloria Estefan

Cartier's Quotes #1149345
#76. Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1164039
#77. 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

Cartier's Quotes #1169441
#78. What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1197080
#79. This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1216737
#80. The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1221409
#81. Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1235854
#82. One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1242024
#83. One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1243346
#84. If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.

Jacques Cartier

Cartier's Quotes #1256221
#85. For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1257971
#86. Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1309967
#87. With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1380393
#88. The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1380864
#89. It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1385149
#90. It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1385460
#91. Of course it's all luck.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1397921
#92. The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it's essential. I didn't think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1409826
#93. One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1444009
#94. I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

Big Sean

Cartier's Quotes #1453840
#95. If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1471902
#96. They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1544937
#97. Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1638254
#98. I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1656390
#99. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Edmundo Desnoes

Cartier's Quotes #1735001
#100. As far as I am concerned, taking photographs 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier's Quotes #1779153

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