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

“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.”

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”

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