Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

The world is abounding with beauty. You are a demonstration of this.

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.