To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

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