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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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