We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil.

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

Life is for happiness not for success.

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

The questions are always more important than the answers.