Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
Henri Cartier-BressonThis 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-BressonYour 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-BressonWhy do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? Itโs absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? Itโs the gimmick of money.
Henri Cartier-Bresson