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 of it while shooting.

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

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

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

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

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

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.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.