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.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

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.

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

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

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

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.