The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but itโs essential. I didnโt think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe
Henri Cartier-BressonThe world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
Henri Cartier-BressonI suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
Henri Cartier-BressonTo me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson