Henri Cartier-Bresson - Camera Quotes

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

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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

Henri Cartier-Bresson