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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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