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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.