To Photograph Reality Is To Photograph Nothing.

I Believe In The Invisible. I Do Not Believe In The Definitive Reality Of Things Around Us. For Me, Reality Is The Intuition And The Imagination And The Quiet Voice Inside My Head That Says: Isn't That Extraordinary? The Things In Our Lives Are The Shadows Of Reality, Just As We Ourselves Are Shadows.

Even In The Deepest Love Relationship - When Lovers Say 'i Love You' To Each Other - We Don't Really Know What We're Saying, Because Language Isn't Equal To The Complexity Of Human Emotions.

If I Indulge Myself And Surrender To Memory, I Can Still Feel The Knot Of Excitement That Gripped Me As I Turned The Corner Into Rue Mimosas, Looking For The House Of Rene Magritte. It Was August, 1965. I Was 33 Years Old And About To Meet The Man Whose Profound And Witty Surrealist Paintings Had Contradicted My Assumptions About Photography.

I Believe In The Imagination. What I Cannot See Is Infinitely More Important Than What I Can See.

I Think That The Photographer Must Completely Control His Picture And Bring To It All His Personality, And In This Area Most Photographs Never Transcend Being Just Snapshots. When A Great Photographer Does Infuse The Snapshot With His Personality And Vision, It Can Be Transformed Into Something Truly Moving And Beautiful.