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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.


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HENRI PIRENNE The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing t...
HENRI NOUWEN To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE