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Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: french
Birth: August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004

Topics

Art Moment Creative Enough Camera

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

Andrew Haigh

Me Feel You Done Want Actor

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

John Lewis

Music Eyes Style Moving Language

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

Max Irons

Work Mistake You Consequences Dwell

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

Angela Duckworth

Work Intelligence Matter Things Get

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

Spike Jonze

Confident More Wild Things Where

Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.

Mike Gallagher

Great Lie Eagle Better Down Bald

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

Luke Bryan

Family Health Great Day I Am Saying

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

Joseph Brodsky

Century 20th Century Territory

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Doug Henning

Tiger Wonder Create More Rabbit Lot

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

Christian Louboutin

You Body Look Wrong Strange Height

There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.

Priya Sachdev

Growth Luxury Place Evolve Consumers

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

Wisdom Song Believe Interesting More