When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.