Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

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.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.