If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be….

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

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

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

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

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible..

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

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,….

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..

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others..

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography..

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Th….

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field..

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up..

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be whol….

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourse….

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….

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv..

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe..