Robert Doisneau quotes

Robert Doisneau was a renowned French photographer, celebrated for capturing candid moments of Parisian life. His work is especially famous for its poetic and often humorous depiction of everyday people and streets. He remains one of the most influential figures in 20th-century photography. Here are 4 of his quotes:

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. (Robert Doisneau)

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

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

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.

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau - Image

Photo: Bracha L. Ettinger, CC BY-SA 2.5

Occupation: French Photographer
Born: April 14, 1912
Died: April 1, 1994
Quotes count: 4

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