One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

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.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

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