The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi …

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative…

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express an…

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and…

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

- Henri Cartier-Bresson