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

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

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.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.