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Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.

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

Life, Like, Photograph

I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.

Advice, Finishing, Finishing It, Giving, Grow

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

Create, Describe, Destroy, Education, Photography, Suggest

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Difficult, Firsts, Get Better, Photographer, Things, Years

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

Director, Directors, Life, Movie, Photography, Street

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

Analyze, Answer, Answers, Photography, Speak, Writing

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.

Animal, Intuitive, Order, Photographer, Photography, Struggle

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Hesitations, Idea, Ideas, Path, Paths, Stammering

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

Collectors, Hate, I Hate, Ones, Take

Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

Lie, Lying, Made, Photography, Report, Witness

When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.

Hunters, Laugh, Laughing, People, Photography, Pictures

A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.

Dare, Girl, Home, Memories, Memory

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment. . . His technique should be like an animal function. . . he should act automatically.

Act, Animal, Blotter, Photographer, Technique

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Forgive, Forgiving, Kiss, Kissing, Life, Life Is Short

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

Ends, Freeze, Sense, Winning, Wins, Youth