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.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

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.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

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