To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

God’s way of thinking should become our way of thinking

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.