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

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

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

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

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

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.