Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

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.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

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

It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.