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

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.

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

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

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

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 me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.