Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

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

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.