What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.