The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

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?

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.