The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

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.