List of Robert Doisneau Quotes

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.

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.

I Hate Collectors, The Ones Who Take Something Just For Themselves.

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.

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.

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.

To Freeze Time, To Hold On To Youth, This Business Makes No Sense. It's Always Time That Wins In The End.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Prefer My Hesitations, My False Paths, My Stammering, To A Preconceived Idea.