Sharpness Is A Bourgeois Concept

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.

The Picture Is Good Or Not From The Moment It Was Caught In The Camera.

Why Do Photographers Start Giving Numbers To Their Prints? It’s Absurd. What Do You Do When The 20th Print Has Been Done? Do You Swallow The Negative? Do You Shoot Yourself? It’s The Gimmick Of Money.

There Is No Closed Figure In Nature. Every Shape Participates With Another. No One Thing Is Independent Of Another, And One Thing Rhymes With Another, And Light Gives Them Shape.

If, In Making A Portrait, You Hope To Grasp The Interior Silence Of A Willing Victim, It's Very Difficult, But You Must Somehow Position The Camera Between His Shirt And His Skin. Whereas With Pencil Drawing, It Is Up To The Artist To Have An Interior Silence.