Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

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

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.