Photography Is An Immediate Reaction, Drawing Is

The World Is Being Created Every Minute, And The World Is Falling To Pieces Every Minute

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.

Photography Has Not Changed Since Its Origin Except In Its Technical Aspects, Which For Me Are Not Important.

Poetry Is The Essence Of Everything, And It’s Through Deep Contact With Reality And Living Fully That You Reach Poetry. Very Often I See Photographers Cultivating The Strangeness Or Awkwardness Of A Scene, Thinking It Is Poetry. No. Poetry Is Two Elements Which Are Suddenly Conflict — A Spark Between Two Elements. But It’s Given Very Seldom, And You Can’t Look For It. It’s Like If You Look For Inspiration. No, It Just Comes By Enriching Yourself And Living.

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