A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?