In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also has two sides to it and thank goodness, I am only intersted in those who discover; I feel a certain solidarity with those who set out in a spirit of discovery; I think there is much more risk invovled in this than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality is more important.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.