The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.