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

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

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

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

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

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

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