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

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

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

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.

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?

The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

When you think more of helping others, you set yourself up for a life of impact

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

I've always had a bad attention span.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.