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Willy Ronis Quotes

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

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

Willy Ronis
Cameras, Bread

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

Willy Ronis
Real

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
Ordinary, Emotion, Source

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

Willy Ronis
Emotion, Communicate, Know How

A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

Willy Ronis
Heart, Fine, Geometry
Willy Ronis, Sylvia Böhmer, Matthias Harder, Nathalie Neumann (2004). “Willy Ronis: "La vie en passant"”, Prestel Publishing

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
Taken, Spur Of The Moment, Spurs
"Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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
Should Have, Notes, Sheets

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
Mirrors, People, Novelty
Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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