And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

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.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

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?