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

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Give me inspiration over information.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

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

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being