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

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

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.

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.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.