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.

I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

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.

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.