Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-BressonThe photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-BressonAnd no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual lightโeven when there isn't any of it.
Henri Cartier-BressonThe simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
Henri Cartier-Bresson