I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.
A picture is the expression of an impression
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
The most important lens you have is your legs
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
Only a vision - that is what one must have.
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
