20 Quotes by 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 me not to have seen things in all their depth.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

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

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.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

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

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

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

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It’s as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.