Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Willy Ronis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Willy Ronis.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.

French - Photographer | August 14, 1910 - September 12, 2009

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A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

Willy Ronis

A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

Willy Ronis

I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

Willy Ronis

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

Willy Ronis

I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

Willy Ronis

We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.

Willy Ronis

Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

Willy Ronis

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

Willy Ronis

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Willy Ronis

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