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To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the…
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The…
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make…
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera…
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in…
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that…

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