05 | April | 2020 | Photo Magic

“For me photography is to place head and heart and eye along the same line of sight. It’s a way of life.”
― Henri Cartier–Bresson

“There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

When Rangoon water supply was blown up the rebels, water was scarce for 5 days in the city, and the people crowded round fire hydrants, trying to drain the last drops into their pails.

“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant.

We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together.

There is also a period when his brain “forgets,” and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts.

But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson,

Funeral of Sri Ramana Maharishi in his last reincarnation, Turuvanamalai, Sri Lanka — Funeral of Sri Ramana Maharishi

“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously.

In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder.

This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson,