I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

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 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.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

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.