the discovery of curiosity and living (22 August 2016)

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rome


It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Vence, France, 1944


A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mercado do Bolhão, Porto, Portugal


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

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson,  Sarajevo. 1965


I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alberto Giacometti in the Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1961

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

– Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell at their farmhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1937


The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

– Dorothy Parker