Lartigue Quotes

#1. Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

Vince Aletti

#2. Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

Craig Venter

#3. Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#4. I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#5. There is a brief moment when you first wake where you have no memories. An idyllic blank slate. A blissful emptiness. But it doesn't last long. You remember exactly who you are and all the terrible things you've gone through.

J.L. Weil

#6. I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#7. Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#8. I think I'm highly loveable.

Alastair Campbell

#9. I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#10. When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

Idries Shah

#11. The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#12. Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#14. Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#15. It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#16. Where there's no faith there's an open door for the enemy

Mark Post

#17. What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

Claudius Claudianus

#18. It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ
a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.

Charles Brent

#19. To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#20. Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#21. What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#22. Only God writes great non-fiction.

E.C. Lartigue

#23. I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#24. The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.

Charlotte Spivack

#25. But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

Rory Bremner

#26. One shouldn't be only two photographers but thousands.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue