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

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

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

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

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.