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

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

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

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.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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

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.