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

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

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

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis