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.

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

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.

The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.

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.

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.

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.