Jacques-Henri Lartigue Quotes

One Shouldn’t Be Only Two Photographers But Thousands.

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.

Photography And Writing Are Marvelous Distractions From Painting. I Might Even Have Found Movies More Interesting Than Photography. I Tried It A Bit, But Not Enough.

I Think Just About Everything Has Been Tackled, But It May Be That Things Will Be Done Again, Only Better And Differently.

It's Marvelous, Marvelous! Nothing Will Ever Be As Much Fun. I'm Going To Photograph Everything, Everything!

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.

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 A Magic Thing. A Thing That Has Mysterious Odors, A Little Strange And Frightening, Something One Quickly Grows To Love.

I Have Two Pairs Of Eyes – One To Paint And One To Take Photographs.

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 Photograph Without One Thought In My Head To Amuse Myself.

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.