Marc Riboud Quotes

• Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Inspirational, Life, Photography

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• Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, World, Changing The World

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• The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Reality, Ideas

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• The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

  Marc Riboud

  Eye, Thinking, Surprise

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• Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Savoring

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• Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Passion, Obsession

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• For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Intellectual, Sensual

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• I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

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  Encounters, Surprise, Should

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• Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

  Marc Riboud

  Choices, Photographer, Existential

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• Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

  Marc Riboud

  Breathing, Joy, Doubt

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• My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

  Marc Riboud

  Photography, Ideas, Interviews

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