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 of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. 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.
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 second… - Robert Doisneau
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 second…
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