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

When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.

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.

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

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

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.