Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.