Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.