32 Quotes by Robert Doisneau

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.