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

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

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

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).