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.

The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

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

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.

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

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