I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.