To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

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.

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

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.

Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.

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.

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.