There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.