Jacques-Henri Lartigue Professions : Photographer Born : June 13, 1894 Died : September 12, 1986 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Jacques-Henri Lartigue 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 photography taken happy Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Jacques-Henri Lartigue photography photographer inspiring 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 important photography art I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs. Jacques-Henri Lartigue pairs eye two 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 odor magic photography I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself. Jacques-Henri Lartigue photograph taken 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 idiotic making-love photographer 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 intuition focus asking 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. Jacques-Henri Lartigue pain photography art It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! Jacques-Henri Lartigue marvelous photographer fun 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. Jacques-Henri Lartigue photography writing interesting 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 photographer taken 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 done may thinking One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands. Jacques-Henri Lartigue photographer two It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! Jacques-Henri Lartigue nothing will photograph fun Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
