I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else i….

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important..

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant..

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever..

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of ….

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious….

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible..

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, s….

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decid….

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the ….

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time..

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant..

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative….

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing..

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important..

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera..

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing..

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.).

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me..

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.