Jacques-Henri Lartigue famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Taken #Moments #Reason
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Photography #Moments #Passing
I have two pairs of eyes â€“ one to paint and one to take photographs.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Eye #Two #Pairs
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.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Art #Important #Trying
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.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Photography #Taken #Ask Me
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.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Focus #Intuition #Asking
I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Thinking #Done #May
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.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Making Love #Photographer #Idiotic
Whatâ€™s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I havenâ€™t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Photography #Art #Pain
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Fun #Photograph
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Photography #Magic #Odor
One shouldnâ€™t be only two photographers but thousands.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Two #Photographer

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