The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

Only a vision - that is what one must have.

The most important lens you have is your legs

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

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.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.