What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

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

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

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.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.