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

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.