Thinking Should Be Done Beforehand And Afterwards

I Am Neither An Economist Nor A Photographer Of Monuments, And I Am Not Much Of A Journalist Either. What I Am Trying To Do More Than Anything Else Is To Observe Life.

The Simultaneous Recognition, In A Fraction Of A Second, Of The Significance Of An Event As Well As The Precise Organization Of Forms Which Gives That Event Its Proper Expression... In Photography, The Smallest Thing Can Be A Great Subject. The Little Human Detail Can Become A Leitmotif.

To Photograph: It Is To Put On The Same Line Of Sight The Head, The Eye And The Heart.

To Me, Photography Is The Simultaneous Recognition, In A Fraction Of A Second, Of The Significance Of An Event As Well As Of A Precise Organization Of Forms Which Give That Event Its Proper Expression. And This Organization, This Precision, Will Always Escape You, If You Do Not Appreciate What A Picture Is, If You Do Not Understand That The Composition, The Logic, The Equilibrium Of The Surfaces And Values Are The Only Ways Of Giving Meaning To All That Is Continuously Appearing And Vanishing Before Our Very Eyes.

It Is By Great Economy Of Means That One Arrives At Simplicity Of Expression.