For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

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

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

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.

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

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.