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.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

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

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?

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

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

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