In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.