The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

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.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.