There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

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

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.