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

- 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

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

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 …

- Robert Doisneau

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

- 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…

- Robert Doisneau

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

- 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.

- Robert Doisneau