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

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

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

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

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

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.