Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

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

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

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

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