With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

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.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.