A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

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.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.