The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.