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

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

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

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

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

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.