Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is an accident.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

Photography is a form of time travel.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

When I snap a good shot, I just can't help myself.