The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

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

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

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.

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.