It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

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

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

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.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.