Henri Cartier-Bresson Tuition Quotations

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

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