Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

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.