Henri Cartier-Bresson

The decisive moment is not a technique, it's an attitude.

The photograph is a fragment of time, a piece of eternity.

I don't like to talk about photography. I like to do it.

The world is a great book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The camera is a pencil, a brush, a pen.

The most important thing is to be honest with yourself.

Photography is a way of life, a philosophy.

The world is full of miracles, you just have to see them.

I am a hunter of images.

The camera is a mirror, reflecting the world and ourselves.

The decisive moment is that moment when you press the shutter release, and everything comes together.

In order to give meaning to the world, we have to recognize that time crumbles things, it crumbles us.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a moment which gets perpetuated through the resulting work.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeing beauty. A shutter release cuts short a fleeting event which can never be repeated.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no reason in a strict sense for them to remain in the photographer’s work.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around one.

The world is going to pieces and people like to think that photography can freeze time.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no reason in a strict sense for them to remain in the photographer’s work.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast and the client mustn't go too fast.

The picture is already there. And the photographer just has to find it.