There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

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.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

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.