Jacques-Henri Lartigue Quotes

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see my life.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.