Sharpness Is A Bourgeois Concept

I'm Not Responsible For My Photographs. Photography Is Not Documentary, But Intuition, A Poetic Experience. It's Drowning Yourself, Dissolving Yourself, And Then Sniff, Sniff, Sniff - Being Sensitive To Coincidence. You Can't Go Looking For It; You Can't Want It, Or You Won't Get It. First You Must Lose Your Self. Then It Happens.

One Eye Looks Within, The Other Eye Looks Without.

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

To Me, Photography Is The Simultaneous Recognition, In A Fraction Of A Second, Of The Significance Of An Event As Well As Of A Precise Organization Of Forms Which Give That Event Its Proper Expression. And This Organization, This Precision, Will Always Escape You, If You Do Not Appreciate What A Picture Is, If You Do Not Understand That The Composition, The Logic, The Equilibrium Of The Surfaces And Values Are The Only Ways Of Giving Meaning To All That Is Continuously Appearing And Vanishing Before Our Very Eyes.

Photography Is An Immediate Reaction, Drawing Is A Meditation.