Edouard Boubat Quotes
The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.
Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.
There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.
To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.
Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.
Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.