...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

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.

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?