With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
The best zoom lens is your legs.
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
