Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

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

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

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