Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.