To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

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.

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

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.

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.

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