Robert Doisneau

“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.”

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

“To suggest is to create; to name is to destroy.”

“The world I was trying to present was one where I would feel good, where people would be friendly, where I could find the tenderness I longed for.”

“Chance is the greatest director of all.”

“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 liked the people I photographed. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”

“There are days when simply seeing feels like a form of prayer.”

“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.”

“You've got to struggle against the pollution of the real. The real is constantly being corrupted.”