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.

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

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

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.

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

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.

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