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

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.