“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

“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.”

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.”

“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”