The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

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

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

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.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.