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

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

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.

Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?

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

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