Quotes from Jacques-Henri Lartigue

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

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.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

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

I don't photograph anything I don't like. I do the flowers, I don't do the weeds.