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.

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.

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

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

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.