There is a camera is between a man and a woman.
I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.
Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.
The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.