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.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

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