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

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.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

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

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.