Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

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

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.