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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.
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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Born:
August 22, 1908
Died:
August 3, 2004
(aged 95)
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