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.

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.

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

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.