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.

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

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

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

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

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.

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