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

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

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.

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.

All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

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

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