It's Seldom You Make A Great Picture.

A Photographer Must Always Work With The Greatest Respect For His Subject And In Terms Of His Own Point Of View.

We Must Avoid However, Snapping Away, Shooting Quickly And Without Thought, Overloading Ourselves With Unnecessary Images That Clutter Our Memory And Diminish The Clarity Of The Whole.

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 Decides Simultaneously. It Is By Economy Of Means That One Arrives At Simplicity Of Expression.

What Do You Think I'm A Professor Of? The Little Finger? (on Offers Of Honorary Doctorates.)

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 Is To Observe Life.