I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.

The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.