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Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. - H

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. – Novalis

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. – Tony Snow

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