Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.