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

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

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

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.