The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

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