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.

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.