[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

I never photograph reality.

How can one live without hope and longing?