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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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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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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The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world. – Jerry Saltz

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Theres no art to find the minds construction in the face. – William Shakespeare

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Not to say people shouldnt get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. – Jerry Saltz

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Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf

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