My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

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.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

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?

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.