I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.