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.

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.

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

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

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

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

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