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.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

We cannot develop and print a memory.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.