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

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.