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

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

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

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.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.