Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.