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

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

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

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.