What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

We cannot develop and print a memory.

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

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

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.