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.

Of course it's all luck.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

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

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.