Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“I am an amateur and I intend to remain one my whole life long.”

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

“Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a salt of imagination that fixes the passing moment.”

“It's not that I 'take' a photo, but that a photo 'takes' me.”

“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.”

“For me, photography is the opposite of a memorial. It is a vital protest against the fleeting nature of things.”

“The most beautiful thing in the world is a beautiful woman... followed by a beautiful car... in the reverse order.”

“I have two pairs of eyes – one in my head and another in my camera.”

“I guard myself against the tragic.”

“Life is a magnificent trap. I am happy to have been caught.”

“The camera is my excuse to be nosy.”

“What I want to do is to show the thing that has to be explained, to show the others the world that is my world.”

“When you are in love you want to tell the world.”