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

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

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

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.