It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
Henri Cartier-BressonThe adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Henri Cartier-BressonIf, 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-BressonTo take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
Henri Cartier-Bresson