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

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

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.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

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

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

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