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.

There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

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.

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

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

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.