> >

  Quotes by Doisneau, Robert




Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994), French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life..

"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."

Doisneau, Robert on image    Share

Bookmark quote

"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."

Doisneau, Robert on luck
3 fans of this quote    Share

Bookmark quote

"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."

Doisneau, Robert on photography    Share

Bookmark quote
Take a look at recent activity on QB!

 

Search Quotations Book