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?

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

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

It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.