Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

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

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

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.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute