“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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