The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

Sometimes you feel fragile for a few days. Don't let the PaperTigers scare you

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective