You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

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

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.