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.

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.

Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her.

Plan, prepare and grow. Repeat.

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Sometimes you have to be your own best friend.

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.