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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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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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All good art is an indiscretion. – Tennessee Williams

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Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. – David Hockney

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland

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