It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

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

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

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?

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.