I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

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

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.