In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me