It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

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

Give me inspiration over information.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.