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

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

We cannot develop and print a memory.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.