Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.