Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

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

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.