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

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

Life is once. Forever.

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.