Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before. . . all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera. . . they are made with the eye, heart and head.

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One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

Photography, Way, Originality, Oneself

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I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before. . . all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

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This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here.

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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

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