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

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

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

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

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.