Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
Henri Cartier-BressonAs 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-BressonPoetry is the essence of everything, and itโs through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict โ a spark between two elements. But itโs given very seldom, and you canโt look for it. Itโs like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.
Henri Cartier-Bresson