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

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

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.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

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

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.