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

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Give me inspiration over information.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

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

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.