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.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. - Robert Doisneau
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
- Robert Doisneau
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. - Robert Doisneau
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better. - Robert Doisneau
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be. - Robert Doisneau
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.
A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fi… - Robert Doisneau
A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fi…
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
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.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an im… - Robert Doisneau
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an im…
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions. - Robert Doisneau
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
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
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.
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