Robert Doisneau Quotes

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• Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending…
• If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
• A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to…
• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
• Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which…
• Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.
• When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.
• You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium…
• A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
• There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory…
• I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
• I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing…
• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
• To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.
• I'm not a collector at heart. I'm never tormented by the longing to possess things. I'm quite happy with my pictures. I've been cohabiting with…
• When I first started to take photos Idpull the black cloth over my head and feel totally secure in the knowledge that no one could…
• The photographer must be absorbent, like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment...His technique should be like an animal function...he should…
• If you take photographs, dont speak, dont write, dont analyse yourself, and dont answer any questions.
• I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

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