One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

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

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

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

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?