I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

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

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

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

The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph