For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

A woman will feel emotionally secure when you can listen to her stories. Then she will learn to love you.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.