I Am A Visual Man. I Watch,

If, In Making A Portrait, You Hope To Grasp The Interior Silence Of A Willing Victim, It's Very Difficult, But You Must Somehow Position The Camera Between His Shirt And His Skin. Whereas With Pencil Drawing, It Is Up To The Artist To Have An Interior Silence.

In Photography, The Smallest Thing Can Be A Great Subject. The Little, Human Detail Can Become A Leitmotiv.

Thinking Should Be Done Beforehand And Afterwards - Never While Actually Taking A Photograph.

Poetry Is The Essence Of Everything, And It’s Through Deep Contact With Reality And Living Fully That You Reach Poetry. Very Often I See Photographers Cultivating The Strangeness Or Awkwardness Of A Scene, Thinking It Is Poetry. No. Poetry Is Two Elements Which Are Suddenly Conflict — A Spark Between Two Elements. But It’s Given Very Seldom, And You Can’t Look For It. It’s Like If You Look For Inspiration. No, It Just Comes By Enriching Yourself And Living.

Oop! The Moment! Once You Miss It, It Is Gone Forever.