French Quotes

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.