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

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.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.