Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes about Intuition

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

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Intuition, Documentaries

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Book, Intuition

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Self, Intuition