I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I have kind of an iron stomach.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

I had support - I had started it, not to forget.