Quotes by Robert Doisneau - Page 1

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Forgiving
Kissing
Life Is Short
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To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Education
Photography
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If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Cameras
Knowing
Photography
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I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Collectors
Hate
I Hate
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I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.
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I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.
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Ideas
Path
Stammering
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For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.
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Firsts
Get Better
Years
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If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
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Answers
Photography
Writing
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To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.
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Ends
Winning
Youth
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The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Movie
Actors
Daily Life
Directors
Exciting
Movie Director
Photography
Unexpected
Arrange
Director
Find
Daily
Street
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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.
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Laughing
People
Photography
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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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Beautiful
Photographer
Treasure
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There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
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Elation
Rich
Want
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Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.
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Lying
Made
Photography
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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.
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Add
Photography
Two
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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.
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Add
Eternity
Seconds
Hundredth
Perhaps
Snatched
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The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Animal
Photographer
Technique
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I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Advice
Finishing It
Giving
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Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Chance
Luck
Pay
Spending
Life Time Chance
The One Thing
Wasting
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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.
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Hunters
Ideas
Lines
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Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau / Photographer
Imagination
People
Sophisticated
Visual
Developed
Particularly
Nowadays
Young People
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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 that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.
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Animal
Photography
Struggle
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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.
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Memories
Perfect
Two
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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 fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.
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Girl
Home
Memories
Wind
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