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.

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.