“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.”

“The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”

“Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.”

“Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.”

“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.”

“If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it’s purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders.”