I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit,…

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intu…

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains m…

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue