The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and ev….

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or pres….

I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes.….

I give the moment permanence..

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photogra….

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, ….

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography..

One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides….

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death..

Shoot what you see, not what you think..