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

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

Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.

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.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.