The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.