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

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

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

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

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.