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

- Robert Doisneau

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

- Robert Doisneau

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

- 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

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

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

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so…

- Robert Doisneau

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

- Robert Doisneau

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

- Robert Doisneau