Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

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.

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.