Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

We must see conditions as they really are, not as we want them to be.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.