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

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

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

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

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.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.