I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Of course it's all luck.

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.

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

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.