It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

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

We cannot develop and print a memory.

The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.