A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view..

Give me inspiration over information..

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chas….

Of course it's all luck..

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that t….

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room..

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing..

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head..

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

You just have to live and life will give you pictures..

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos..

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you,….

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

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world..

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleetin….

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without..

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives tha….

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should….

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing..

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos..

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one'….