This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

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

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.