The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

I never photograph reality.

[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.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.