Photographer Robert Doisneau Quotes

#1. If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Robert Doisneau

#2. For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Robert Doisneau

#3. You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

Robert Doisneau

#4. Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

Lindsey Buckingham

#5. I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color.

Stanley Karnow

#6. Gravity always wins

Michael Hirsch

#7. My hands felt bruised from the hot, dry air. Inside,

Vu Tran

#8. Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#9. He said that people need time in order to be able to see things clearly.

Yaa Gyasi

#10. 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.

Robert Doisneau

#11. One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm.
And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. It's that heart of gold, and stardust shine that makes you beautiful.

R.M. Broderick

#13. 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 act automatically.

Robert Doisneau

#14. was pregnant, his father had written back

Julie Orringer