To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

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.

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

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.

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.

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