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

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

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

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact