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

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

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

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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.