A Photographer Must Always Work

Photographers Deal In Things Which Are Continually Vanishing And When They Have Vanished There Is No Contrivance On Earth Which Can Make Them Come Back Again.

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.

Everyone Has Got Some Preconceptions, But You Have To Readjust Them In Front Of Reality. Reality Has The Last Word.

Thinking Should Be Done Before And After, Not During Photographing. Success Depends On The Extent Of One's General Culture. One's Set Of Values, One's Clarity Of Mind One's Vivacity. The Thing To Be Feared Most Is The Artificially Contrived, The Contrary To Life.

Inside Movement There Is One Moment In Which The Elements Are In Balance. Photography Must Seize The Importance Of This Moment And Hold Immobile The Equilibrium Of It.