Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.