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

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

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.

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

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.