“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 herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.”

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality… One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

“A photograph it a souvenir of a memory.
It is not a moment.
It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

“Physics is becoming the study of organization. In this way … it will converge with biology and psychology.”

“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.”