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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”