Photography as I conceive it, well, it’s a drawing. Immediate sketch, done with intuition and you can correct it. If you have to correct it, it’s with the next picture. But life is very fluid; sometimes the pictures disappear, and there’s nothing you can do. You can’t tel the person, ‘Oh, please smile again. Do that gesture again.’ Life is once, forever and new all the time.

quoted in the interview by Sheila Turner Seed. [cited in: “Popular Photography, May 1974, p. 108 “Henri Cartier-Bresson”]

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