Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
Henri Cartier-BressonThe Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
Henri Cartier-BressonFor me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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-BressonRene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.
Henri Cartier-Bresson