#Romance

"I take the rather unpopular view - among photographers - that words and pictures need one another."

~ Thurston Hopkins

“There are days when the technique of an aimless stroll or destination works like a charm, flushing out pictures from the non stop urban spectacle"

 

~ Robert Doisneau

“I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you,
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you, bend to you,
and the measure of my changing love for you,
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume my heart with its cruel ray,
stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who dies,
The only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.”

~ Pablo Neruda
(Sonnet LXVI: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You)

“The real night people live at night not out of necessity, but because they they want to. They belong to the world of pleasure and love, a secret suspicious world closed to the uninitiated"

 

Brassaï
(1899-1984)

“I soon understood that I could get closer to the feel of things by taking pictures.”

 

~ Charles Harbutt
1935-2015

"I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."

~ Eve Arnold

"I was doing a magazine story about the hydroelectric dam in Bratsk, which at that time was the largest in the world, but when you’re in a place you want to look around as well so I walked into this wedding palace. You can read anything you want into it. I think that if you explain pictures it’s like explaining jokes, or as a friend of mine used to say “It’s like dissecting a frog: once it’s dissected it’s dead". If it hits you, fine. If it doesn’t, that’s fine too. A picture has more than content, it has also a position, a style and so forth, so if you get something out of it, it’s good enough: if you get something beyond that, it’s even better"

 

~ Elliott Erwitt

“Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile. The world I was trying to present was one where I would feel good, where people would be friendly, where I could find the tenderness I longed for. My photos were like a proof that such a world could exist.”

 

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)

“Every photo is my first photo. I have avoided nothing, roads, trains, plains, tiredness, departures, passions, morning light, desire for others, life. People often ask me “How did you begin?” I like to answer: “With light". I look out every morning, like a farmer, at the grey and white sky of Paris. I wake with the promise of sunshine”

~ Edouard Boubat(1923 - 1999)

"I was able to look through that camera and to see things that I loved. I loved my community. I love my people as I do now"
~ John Simmons

"People like my photos because they see in them what they would see if they stopped rushing about and took the time to enjoy the city."

~ Robert Doisneau