Quotes About Robert Doisneau

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

Stanley Karnow

#2. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

#3. 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 a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

#4. 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

#5. I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,

Robert Doisneau

#6. To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense.
It's always time that wins in the end.

Robert Doisneau

#7. 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

#8. 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 one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

#9. Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

#10. We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Doisneau

#12. 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 just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

#13. The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

#14. To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

Robert Doisneau

#15. 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.

Robert Doisneau

#16. Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

Robert Doisneau

#17. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#18. Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Paul Lafargue

#19. If your vision dies with you, you failed.

Myles Munroe

#20. He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

Cynthia Ozick

#21. He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.

Dean Koontz

#22. I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

Neil Farber

#23. I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

Robert Doisneau

#24. If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

Robert Doisneau

#25. 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 it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.

Robert Doisneau

#26. I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me.

George Clooney

#27. 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

Robert Doisneau

#28. 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

#29. The world had turned to madness, and it was tainted red.

C.M. Gray

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

Robert Doisneau

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

Robert Doisneau