To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

We cannot develop and print a memory.

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

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

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