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.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

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

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.

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.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.