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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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Photography
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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
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Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. – Thomas Huxley

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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. – Ad Reinhardt

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