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

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

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

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.

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.

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