For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s own originality. It’s a way of life.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
It’s seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.