Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.