The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

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

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.