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

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being