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

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.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

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

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