Rene Burri Quotes

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.