Quotes from 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.

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

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

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.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Šanca je jediná vec, ktorú si nekúpite. Musíte za ?u zaplati?, zaplati? životom, ?asom, úsilím. ?as nemí?ate, platíte ním.

To those who enjoy breathing the smell of incense, I recommend a different profession. The photographer pulls the sleeve of the rushed man with a blank stare and shows him the free and permanent show of the street.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

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.

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.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.