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-BressonRead
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the idea that the process of creation can be mysterious and not always articulable.
Henri Cartier-Bresson's quote expresses the perplexity experienced by artists when asked about their creative process. He suggests that rather than focusing on the method of creating art, the importance lies in the art itself and the emotions it evokes. This embodies the notion that creativity is often an instinctive and ineffable experience, rather than a scientific formula that can be easily explained.
In practice
In an art class, when discussing artistic intuition.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
When I perform, I simply follow the music, and my heart; everything comes from me in a very natural way - it's not a show; and I believe in this way, it also touches the hearts of those in the audience.
Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but coming from a disadvantaged community, I never knew that filmmaking was an option for me. A program like School of Doc would have been a game-changer.
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