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-BressonPhotography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
Henri Cartier-BressonEveryone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-BressonIn photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
Henri Cartier-BressonInside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson