Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.