A Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Could Eternity Fix Instant Photograph Suddenly Understood

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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French - Photographer
August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Brigitte Bardot

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

Charles M. Schulz

One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

Wumen Huikai

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.

Wumen Huikai

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

Meera Syal

That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb

CJ Roberts

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

Theo de Raadt

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

John Green

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.