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

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.

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.

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

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.

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.