Sharpness Is A Bourgeois Concept

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.

The Creative Act Lasts But A Brief Moment, A Lightning Instant Of Give-and-take, Just Long Enough For You To Level The Camera And To Trap The Fleeting Prey In Your Little Box.

To Photograph Is To Hold One's Breath, When All Faculties Converge To Capture Fleeting Reality. It's At That Precise Moment That Mastering An Image Becomes A Great Physical And Intellectual Joy.

The Camera Is For Us A Tool, Not A Pretty Mechanical Toy ... People Think Far Too Much About Techniques And Not Enough About Seeing.

In Whatever One Does There Must Be A Relationship Between The Eye And The Heart.