I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Shoot what you see, not what you think.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

I give the moment permanence.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.