Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

Give me inspiration over information.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

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

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.