I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

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.

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

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

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

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

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