For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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-BressonHe made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
Henri Cartier-BressonEveryone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-Bresson