Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

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

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

Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.