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

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

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.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

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

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.