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.

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.

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

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.