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.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

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

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

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