I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.