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

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.