My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

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.

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

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

Photography is my only language.

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.

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