Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

1947). He returned to freelance photography and sold photographs to Life and other international magazines. At the end of the 1920s Doisneau found work as a draughtsman (lettering artist) in the advertising industry at Atelier Ullmann (Ullmann Studio) a creative graphics studio that specialised in the pharmaceutical industry.

Robert Doisneau (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984.